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Friday, February 10, 2012

Unknown February 10, 2012

Failures due to soil liquefaction have been a known problem for some time. Fortunately, a new technology developed by Boise State University...

Worlds Largest Piles Ever Installed!

They say bigger is always better right? Well, the Chinese certainly think so. The worlds largest piles (in terms of diameter) have been succ...
LEGAL CORNER: LICENSES ARE NOT OPTIONAL

Florida , and Miami in particular, is filled to the rim with the Joe the plumber, Pierre the drywall installer, and Jose the roofer. Howeve...
New Marlins ballpark says "Bring on the hurricanes"

Last week a few friends approached me and asked if I wanted to get season tickets to the inaugural season of the Florida (sorry... Miami) Ma...
Geotechnical Engineering?

On a previous post , I started to discuss what exactly is the field of Geotechnical Engineering, but did not go into too much depth. Well, w...
What is Geotechnical Engineering?

One of my goals with getting involved in blogging is to educate others about the fascinating field of geotechnical engineering. Geotechnical...