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Response of Piled Buildings to the Construction of Deep Excavations

IOS Press, a valued Geoengineer.org sponsor, published last year a book by Mandy Korff based on a research which provides insight into mechanisms of soil-structure interaction for piled buildings adja...

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Challenges encountered in dam removal and underwater valley restoration projects

Built in 1913 to provide the earthquake-devastated San Francisco with fresh water, the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir has given rise to significant political dispute over decades, with environmentalists...

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Mudslide in Tajikistan kills six children and buries village under the mud

A mudslide hit the area of Shuroabad, 150 miles south of the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, near the Afghan borders on April 12. The landslide occurred in the middle of the night, which explains the numbe...

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The success story of the Calcutta underground sewage network.

The underground sewage network spreading under Calcutta, built back in 1875 by the British settlers, was equivalent to the systems of European cities like London and Hamburg, Germany. Being in operati...

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A West Coast earthquake early warning system at stake due to lack of funding, as Japan's is active since 2007

Earthquake prediction has been a challenge for scientists for decades until the development of early warning systems, already up and running in countries like Japan and Mexico. China is in the process...

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Keynetix's Geotechnical Data Hub is 4 Years Old!

Four years ago, Keynetix set up the Geotechnical Data Hub with the hope of getting like minded individuals to comment and contribute to articles which were relevant to their joint interests and goals....

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Keynetix Release Standalone Data Entry Module for HoleBASE SI

Keynetix are pleased to announce the release of the Data Entry Tool and standalone Data Entry Module along with other major enhancements in the latest release of their popular geotechnical data manage...

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Joseph Welsh Receives 2014 Opal Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers

Hayward Baker Inc. (HB) is pleased to announce that retired vice president Joseph Welsh is a 2014 recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Award. The OPAL Award, establish...

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LiDAR technology: a new perspective in landslide risk evaluation

On the occasion of the Oso landslide, LiDAR technology comes forward, as an efficient means of revealing landslide risk. Signs of past landslides were obvious with bare eyes in the Snohomish Coun...

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Opening the classroom to the geo-profession 2: Web-based class projects on Ground Improvement prepared by University of Michigan students are available now for everybody to review!

Students from the University of Michigan who are taking this semester the graduate level course CEE 542 on “Soil and Site Characterization” have prepared their class projects on “Select topics in Grou...

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