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Call for Papers for Special Issue on Safety and Serviceability: Case Histories to be published in ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories

TC205 on Safety and Serviceability in Geotechnical Design is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for Case Histories related to Safety and Serviceability that will be published in ISSMGE’s Internatio...

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£19.8M Torcross coastal defence scheme begins with 90,000 tonnes of rock armour

Construction has begun on a £19.8 million coastal defence scheme at Torcross in Devon, where almost 90,000 tonnes of new rock armour will be placed along the shoreline following severe storm damage ea...

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Skye road restored after 300-tonne landslide with rock armour and drainage works

Around 300 tonnes of rock, soil and debris were removed from a key road on the Isle of Skye after a landslide blocked the route near Uig, triggering a rapid programme of slope stabilisation and draina...

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Three dead and infrastructure damaged as eastern Spain recovers from severe flooding

Communities in eastern Spain are assessing the damage left by several days of intense rainfall and flash flooding that killed at least three people, inundated homes and roads and disrupted transport a...

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Floods and landslides kill 70 across India and Nepal as rivers exceed danger levels

Heavy rainfall, flooding and landslides have killed at least 70 people across India and Nepal, while rising rivers and continued rainfall are keeping large areas under flood and flash-flood warnings.I...

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Scotland's railway resilience work puts earthworks and drainage first

Scotland’s rail network is being reinforced against a changing climate, with GBP130m invested over the past two years in works aimed at reducing disruption from flooding, landslips, rockfalls and extr...

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Westdown Quarry restart highlights geotechnical and operational controls

A dormant limestone quarry near Frome is moving closer to production after Heidelberg Materials UK agreed planning conditions with Somerset Council for the reopening of Westdown Quarry. The agreement...

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Soil nails replace temporary barriers at Dinah's Hollow landslip route

A long-running slope stability problem on the C13 at Dinah's Hollow in Dorset has reached the halfway point of a year-long remediation programme. The road, located near Shaftesbury between Melbury Abb...

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Fatal landslide exposes construction-stage risks around tunnel portals

A fatal landslide at the under-construction Anakkampoyil-Kalladi-Meppadi road tunnel project in Kerala has renewed concern over construction-stage slope stability in the Western Ghats. The landslide o...

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Maidstone East cutting shows importance of proactive slope management

Railway cuttings can be among the most sensitive geotechnical assets on transport networks. They are often steep, weathered, difficult to access and located directly beside live operational infrastruc...

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