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Back-to-back fatal landslides strike Tauranga, North Island, New Zealand

Six people, including two teenagers, remain missing after a landslide struck a busy campsite at Mount Maunganui on New Zealand’s North Island, following days of intense rainfall. The landslide occurr...

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Dennis Boehm receives the Wallace Hayward Baker Award

With a focus on deep foundations since entering the industry, Dennis began his career with Hayward Baker (now Keller) in 1990. Throughout his tenure, he has become an expert on wet and dry soil mixin...

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Recent Nevada earthquakes highlight long-term crustal deformation risks

Multiple earthquakes were recorded in western Nevada on Monday, 19 January 2026, highlighting ongoing tectonic deformation in one of the most seismically active regions of the United States. Accordi...

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Meet DIPS: The New Standard in Orientation Analysis

For more than 30 years, DIPS (Data Integration using Projected Stereonets) has set the benchmark for stereonet-based analysis of orientation data, becoming a trusted reference across geotechnical and...

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Specialist spider excavator plays key role in Whitchurch Canal boat rescue

The complex recovery of stranded narrowboats following the December collapse of the Llangollen Canal near Whitchurch has been supported by the deployment of a specialist spider excavator, enabling sa...

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Dubai Municipality invites bids for $8.2bn strategic sewerage tunnels project

Dubai Municipality has formally invited bids for the Phase II Links Package of the Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels (DSST) project, advancing one of the emirate’s largest public private partnership...

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50 Years of Chance Instant Foundations

In February 1976, the Chance Tips newsletter featured an article titled "Chance Streetlight Foundations Solve Several Problems in Streetlight Installations." Authored by W.J. Fisher, Chairman of the...

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Sea defence upgrades protect iconic Folkestone rail route

Major coastal defence works have commenced at Folkestone Warren to safeguard the strategically important South Eastern Railway line that runs along the base of the chalk cliffs. The scheme, led by Ne...

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138,733 paper downloads in 2025 for the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories!

The ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories is proud to announce that its papers were downloaded 138,733 times in 2025 (up 18.32% from 117,260 downloads in 2024). The Internatio...

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China’s TBM rescue beneath the Yangtze

During construction of the Jiangyin–Jingjiang Yangtze River Tunnel, a 6.4 km road tunnel beneath the Yangtze River, a 16 m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) suffered a catastrophic failure approxi...

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