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Offshore and Coastal Geotechnics Call for Papers

The SEAGS & AGSSEA Journal- Geotechnical Engineering is happy to announce the call-for-paper on "Offshore and Coastal Geotechnics" for a special issue published in December 2014. The collected pa...

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Houses built on reportedly old dump, severely damaged. Residents blame city of Havelock, North Carolina

ABC News reports on the significant settlement of an area in Havelock, North Carolina. Reportedly, within very shallow depth, waste material is being excavated in the backyard of residents. The area i...

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The May Issue of the Geoengineer.org Newsletter has been released!

Geoengineer.org is pleased to announce the 100th issue of its monthly Geoengineer.org Newsletter! In this issue, you will find this month's top news items, new free online papers, upcoming confere...

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ANNOUNCING IFCEE 2015 CONGRESS CHAIRMAN, BILLY CAMP

Billy Camp, P.E., D.GE, M.ASCE, will serve as the IFCEE 2015 Congress Chairman. Billy is a Technical Principal, Vice President, and Senior Geotechnical Engineer with S&ME, Inc. and is based in th...

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Progress Report on the Seventh International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

The seventh international conference on case histories in geotechnical engineering was held in Chicago, Illinois from May 1 through May 04, 2013 to commemorate the legacy of Professor Ralph B. Peck fo...

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Tunnel cave-in at Gold and Copper Mine in Indonesia; Two killed, 27 missing

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the world's biggest publicly traded copper producer, reported a tunnel collapse at its Grasberg complex in Indonesia. Grasberg in Papua province includes open-...

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Contractor destroys a 2,300-year-old Mayan Temple in Belize and uses limestone as gravel for a village road

Bloomberg reports that according to the National Institute of Culture and Heritage in Belize, a contractor has destroyed a 2,300-year-old Mayan Temple and used the limestone bricks for gravel to build...

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Shamsher Prakash annual prize for excellence in the practice of geotechnical engineering

Shamsher Prakash Foundation solicits nomination (no application) for the "2013 SHAMSHER PRAKASH PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE PRACTICE OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING" for young persons(45 years) primarily...

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ISSMGE's Case Histories Journal releases new issue: Issue #3, Vol. 2

Geoengineer.org is pleased to announce the 3rd Issue of Volume 2 of the International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, an official Journal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and...

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Paper documents failure at Payatas landfill in the Philippines that killed 330

A paper published by Jafari, Prof. Tim Stark and Prof. Scott Merry describes the conditions under which the ~30 m failure took place. The paper is part of Vol. 2 Issue 3 of the International Journal o...

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