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GRL: Offshore Foundation Testing
GRL Engineers has helped achieve successful pile installation for offshore platforms and wind farms in fields throughout the world. This expertise translates seamlessly to the installation of offshor...
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Geoengineers to enhance offshore development capabilities
Marine and engineering consultancy LOC Renewables has invested in geological and geotechnical services to underpin technical consulting for offshore wind farm construction. The company has announce...
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World’s first floating wind farm powers up offshore Scotland
The world's first floating wind farm recently started to deliver electricity off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland. The Hywind project has five 6MW turbines floating 25 kilometers off the coast of P...
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First US offshore wind farm under construction!
- Apr, 30, 2015
- News On Projects / Industry Foundation Design / Construction Offshore Geotechnics
- Block Island, US
The construction of the first offshore wind farm has just started on US ground in Block Island , a small island 13 miles south of Rhode Island, last Monday. Upon completion, the wind farm will supply...
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The politics of offshore construction in the South China sea
- Oct, 06, 2014
- News On Projects / Industry Offshore Geotechnics Foundation Design / Construction
- South China Sea
A special report by BBC describes the territorial fight in the South China Sea between the neighboring countries of China, Vietnam and Philippines. The latest move from China's part is the c...
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MOSES V7.1 for Floating Offshore Structures released by Bentley
Bentley Systems Incorporated continues to be a leader in the provision of engineering comprehensive software for better-performing, safer, and more resilient infrastructure Bentley's newest software r...
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iCoast: a new application from USGS to monitor coastal changes
iCoast: Did the coast change? This is the question that users of the new crowdsourcing application launched by USGS, will get the opportunity to answer. The obtained information will help scientists i...
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Landslide in Mexico results in coastal highway collapse [video]
- Dec, 28, 2013
- Other News Landslides Offshore Geotechnics Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Tijuana-Ensenada Road, Zona Urbana Río Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Last Saturday a coastal road located about 60miles from the Mexico-United States border connecting the Mexican towns of Ensenada and Tijuana, collapsed after a landslide that was probably triggered by...
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New test for the BLUE Piling Method, an innovative offshore piling technology [video]
BLUE Piling Technology was developed by Fistuca BV Company, Van Oord and TNO in order to reduce noise and cost, while driving hollow piles into the seafloor. This new method uses water, which is abund...
Read MoreOffshore 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 pap...
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