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Five key considerations when selecting mini excavators

Making an excavation in narrow places is not an easy task. In major cities and urban environments this can be a technically challenging problem. There is often no space to position an excavator, let a...

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Method predicting the size of past earthquakes: is it reliable?

Researchers have tried to estimate the frequency of earthquakes in the past in order to indicate possible earthquakes in the future. To do so researchers of Oregon provided a method to correlate the s...

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New Video Highlights Research on the In-Situ Assessment of the Seismic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste

A new video released last Friday highlights new research funded by the National Science Foundation that is conducted to study the seismic response of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills. The vide...

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Hayward Baker Announces Acquisition of North American Caisson (NAC) by Its Parent Keller

Hayward Baker announces that the Keller Group has acquired the assets of North American Energy Partners’ piling division, known as North American Caisson (NAC). The acquisition was completed on July...

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Panama Canal Expansion - Jan De Nul NV

The price for dredging projects is calculated according to the type and volume of material as well as whether the material is below or above sea level. The ability to calculate accurate material volu...

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Mississippi Department of Transportation Cuts Geotechnical Reporting Time in Half Using gINT

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) Geotechnical Division produces geotechnical investigation reports for roadway and bridge projects throughout the state. To streamline the process o...

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In-the-wet construction for dams in Ohio River: an innovative method or an expensive one?

The budget for the construction of two dams in the Ohio River, in order to replace the old ones, increased from $775 million in 1988 to $3.1 billion in present. The main reason for this huge raise is...

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What is Geotechnical Engineering? Outreach whatisgeotech.org website to society-at-large, developed by ISSMGE, answers this question

Next time you want to explain to your family, friends, or even students, what is geotechnical engineering, you can easily direct them to the whatisgeotech.org website! It was developed under the guida...

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Diaphragm wall construction in Germany on the Elbe-Harvel Canal

The construction of the new Zerben lock will facilitate the passage of large barges to reach ports on the river Rhine and Berlin’s inland harbor network. A diaphragm wall is being constructed as a fou...

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gINT V8i: Free Trial for 30 days!

Bentley’s gINT software provides centralized data management and reporting for subsurface projects of all types: geotechnical, geoenvironmental, geophysical, petroleum, mining, and more. gINT High...

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