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McCrae Landslide: Lessons from a Hillside Collapse
- May, 22, 2025
- Landslides Groundwater Pumping Groundwater & Seepage Slope Stability Analysis News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Australia, McCrae
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
On January 14, 2025, a coastal community in McCrae, Victoria faced a sudden and destructive landslide that sent a multi-million-dollar home tumbling down an ancient sea cliff. The collapse seriously...
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New Study Examines Nature-Based Horizontal Levees to Reduce Flood Risk in San Francisco Bay
A recent paper by USGS and University of California, Santa Cruz researchers explores how hybrid nature-based climate adaptation measures, such as horizontal levees, can reduce the risk of overtopping...
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Landslide Tragedy at Lai Chau Hydropower Site Raises Safety Concerns in Vietnam
- May, 16, 2025
- Dam Engineering Landslides Slope Stability Forensics News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Vietnam
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A devastating landslide struck the Ta Pao Ho 1A hydropower plant construction site in Lai Chau Province, northern Vietnam, on the morning of May 16, 2025, resulting in the loss of multiple lives and...
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Drilled Shafts Project on Gilbert Road Bridge
- May, 16, 2025
- Foundation Design / Construction Deep Foundations Green Infrastructure News On Projects / Industry
- United States, Arizona , Phoenix
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In response to significant flooding events and working under an accelerated construction schedule in record-high temperatures, Keller constructs some of the largest drilled shafts in Arizona. Diverte...
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Geotechnical Slope Design for Lithium Deposits in a Shifting Market Landscape
- May, 07, 2025
- Mining Geoenvironmental Engineering Slope Stability Rock Mass Characterization Rock Engineering Structural Geology News On Projects / Industry News On Research / Academia News On Publications Geology Highlights
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
As the demand for lithium continues to rise, particularly from the electric vehicle and renewable energy storage sectors, hard rock lithium deposits—primarily hosted in spodumene-rich pegmatites—are...
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PLAXIS 2024.3 New Release is Out!
- May, 15, 2025
- Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Data Management Slope Stability News On Software Foundation Design / Construction
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The latest PLAXIS release has been updated to include design approaches for PLAXIS 3D. Users can now design in accordance with Eurocode or other methods that utilize partial factors within the 3D des...
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Seoul’s Underground Infrastructure Raises Ground Stability Concerns
- May, 15, 2025
- Settlements Tunneling Underground Structures News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- South Korea
- Authored by: Alexandros Tsavalas
Seoul’s recent sinkholes have raised public safety concerns and questions on how existing and future underground infrastructure affects such events. On March 25th, as you can see in the following vi...
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Embankment Stabilization Success on Brighton Main Line
- May, 08, 2025
- Landslides Railway Geotechnics Slope Stabilization Road Embankments News On Natural Disasters / Failures News On Projects / Industry
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In January 2025, a landslip between Three Bridges and Gatwick Airport prompted immediate geotechnical intervention on the Brighton Main Line. Network Rail swiftly acted to prevent further ground mov...
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Two-week quarry safety inspection campaign launched by Ireland’s Health and Safety Authority (HSA)
Ireland’s Health and Safety Authority (HSA) begun on Monday 12th May a two-week quarry safety inspection campaign as it worries that many quarries do not carry out geotechnical appraisals and subsequ...
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Chance® Introduces GroutForce™ Displacement Pile
- May, 12, 2025
- Pile Foundations Deep Foundations Foundation Design / Construction Shaft Foundations Grouting News On Products & Services
- United States, Missouri, Centralia
- Authored by: Sarah Banks
The GroutForce™ displacement pile (GDP) is a patented foundation solution for loose to dense sand or soft to firm clay which can provide axial capacity of over 500 kip (2224 kN) as well as significan...
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