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Why Builders Are Turning to Helical Piles for Residential Construction

In today's residential and multifamily construction market, builders face increasing pressure to control costs, accelerate schedules, and build on sites that would have been considered unbuildable jus...

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Behavior of Square-Round Shaft Combination Helical Piles and Anchors

Historically, most helical anchors and piles have been fabricated with helices attached to either a solid square or open pipe central shaft (Square-Shaft (SS) or Round-Shaft (RS)). This is generally h...

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Control piles back in service: how UNAM engineers restored the foundations of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral

After years without maintenance and the 2017 earthquakes, a 2020–2021 geotechnical program at Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral re-read the piezometers, repeated CPTs, load-tested and reconditioned...

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Malibu sinkhole near reported Nicolas Cage property exposes coastal erosion risk

A large ground collapse beside a beachfront Malibu property reportedly owned by Nicolas Cage has been linked to coastal erosion, seawall undermining and strong wave action associated with Hurricane Ma...

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Land subsidence becomes a growing planning challenge across Europe

Land subsidence is becoming increasingly visible across Europe, affecting homes, infrastructure, groundwater systems and flood-prone areas. The process refers to the downward movement of the ground, b...

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Alaska’s thawing permafrost turns rebuilding into a ground engineering decision

In parts of western Alaska, the ground is no longer behaving like ground. In the coastal village of Kwigillingok, along the Bering Sea, some areas now feel soft, wet and unstable — a local symptom...

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$1.7B Big Bend infrastructure plan tests balance between security and landscape protection

Heavy equipment has begun working inside Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas as federal crews assess ground conditions for a major border infrastructure programme. The work is linked to a USD1.7...

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Elkhart Lake trench collapse shows why excavation safety cannot rely on luck

A 55-year-old worker was rescued in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, after a trench collapsed and buried him up to his neck. First responders were called to Rhine Street, where three people had reportedly bee...

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Georgia Tech Digitizes George F. Sowers' 1940s Harvard Notes from Terzaghi and Casagrande

The Georgia Tech Geosystems group has released digital scans of course notes taken by Prof. George F. Sowers during his graduate studies at Harvard University in the late 1940s, offering the geotechni...

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Inter Helix Spacing: A Historical and Technical Review

In today’s world of smartphones, cloud computing, and autonomous vehicles, helical piles and anchors hardly qualify as cutting‑edge technology. Yet this seemingly simple product continues to play a cr...

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