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TheStructuralEngineer.info launches new website and daily-updated News Center
TheStructuralEngineer.info is pleased to launch its new website. The website is a major upgrade of the earlier version of thestructuralengineer.info. It includes many new indexed databases, including...
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Drilled shafts ready for new St. Croix Crossing Bridge
- Nov, 08, 2013
- News On Projects / Industry Shaft Foundations Foundation Design / Construction
- St Croix River, MN, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) announced, last Friday, the completion of the construction of 40 drilled shafts that will support foundations for the new St. Croix River Bridge....
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Flood barriers for Long Beach funded by NY State
- Nov, 10, 2013
- Other News Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters
- Long Beach, NY, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Governor Andrew Cuomo visited Long Beach last Sunday and announced that State will spend $13 million to construct flood barriers in the shoreline. It will be an effort to protect the wastewater tre...
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Drilling rig causes damage to adjacent building
- Nov, 05, 2013
- Other News Foundation Design / Construction
- Sunny Isles Beach, FL, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The 50-foot tall drilling rig, used to place concrete pylons in a construction site in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, toppled and struck a neighboring parking garage, last week. The rig stopped on the...
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GDS commercializes variable direction dynamic cyclic simple shear device; revolutionizes commercial simple shear testing
GDS recently launched its Variable Direction Dynamic Cyclic Simple Shear ((VDDCSS). The Simple Shear loading has numerous applications in practice, such as seismic loading scenarios (Pestana and Bisco...
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Elizabeth TBM arrives at Stepney Green Cavern (video)
- Nov, 08, 2013
- News On Projects / Industry Tunneling Railway Geotechnics
- London, United Kingdom
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Elizabeth TBM arrived last Friday at Stepney Green cavern during its journey to Farringdon. Elizabeth and Victoria are the second pair of TBMs used for the project and scheduled to complete the longes...
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Philippines landslides and infrastructure disasters by Typhoon Haiyan
More lives were lost and more landslides occurred in the Philippines last Friday by Typhoon Haiyan, only a month after the Philippines earthquake-induced landslides. The storm surge was defini...
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New titles available in our Featured books section!
- Nov, 11, 2013
- News On Publications Tunneling Deep Excavations Pile Foundations Other Geotechnical
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
We are happy to announce that 4 new titles have been added in our Featured Books section by Ernst & Sohn in a variety of geo-categories! You can find more information on the book titles and how...
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Geoengineer.org expands and moves to new, bigger offices
Geoengineer.org recently moved to new offices with larger space and better facilities. The new Athens office can better accomodate the needs of the growing organization and constitute an exciting lan...
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Impressive Tunnelling Network below Emperor Hadrian’s Villa dates back to 118 A.D.(video)
A network of tunnels and passageways has been discovered by the caver Marco Placidi’s team, beneath the Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, 15 miles east of Rome. Recently, Placidi’s team discovered a new 1...
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