I receive many emails requesting services, without a physical mailing address in the email signature.
I like to include the client's name, company name, and address on my proposals and reports, but sometimes they don't want to give it to me.
Am I just really old fashioned, or has the business...
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/hawaii-property-owner-left-stunned-095700264.html
This seemed more like a failure than a pub discussion. Developer and builder construct home on the wrong property and sue property owner to give up ownership.
Isn't this why we hire qualified surveyors and...
https://www.cityofboise.org/news/fire/2024/january/three-fatalities-and-several-injuries-following-a-building-collapse/
Hangar under construction collapsed killing 3 and injuring more.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bologna-garisenda-tower/index.html
I guess Pisa gets all the press, but this one sounds like it could be ready to become a disaster.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/several-rescued-after-partial-building-collapse-near-yale-medical-school
Concrete pump boom in the photos, so I am guessing the formwork was insufficient to support a deck placement.
https://amp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/102381864
Why do people not understand the need of quality subsurface investigations?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bernard-s-80044942_newsupdate-activity-7034686228859940864-KG-M?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Slope stability is not something to take lightly. The massive amount of material that moved is evident when compared to the equipment in the pit.
I just don't know what to say, but is this the kind of thing to give us nightmares? Really cool concept
https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/rice-engineers-get-grip-necrobotic-spiders
https://www.theblaze.com/news/teen-dies-sand-collapse
In the past week, two young people lost their lives while playing in sand. These tragedies could have been avoided. Was this an engineering failure?
As the engineering community, do we have a moral obligation to do better to educate the...
Contractor is proposing to spray magnesium chloride on the ground surface every 2 to 3 weeks to reduce evaporation and loss of subsurface moisture during construction. I've heard of it's use for dust control, but never to prevent evaporation.
We are in a dry climate where we have more...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-killed-bouncy-castle-accident-australia/
Prayers for the victims and their families, but also for the rest of the school staff, faculty and students.
How do we keep these tragedies from happening? Proper training on the set up and operation of these...
We are working on a project with multiple pile/drilled shaft foundations in the design. We have 3 different piles, each with its own loading configuration, within a few feet of each other.
Does anybody have some guidance on how to analyze the "group" effect on these elements? One pile will...
https://www.kotatv.com/2021/11/10/latest-hideaway-hills-study-shows-all-153-houses-are-uninhabitable/
Time for another lively discussion: Where does the fault lie?
Homeowners have been evicted from their residences, due to an abandoned underground mine opening up right under their...
How is everybody handling questions on Seismic pressures against basement walls? Typically, soil pressure against a basement wall is considered "at rest" loading. The only reference I've heard of on this topic is from 2010 Seismic Earth Pressures on Deep Building Basements by Lew, M., Sitar...
Is there an empirical relationship between a soil's permeability at a range of densities? I can't find one and am hoping somebody out there could point me in the right direction.
I have a soil with permeability 1.5E-8, at a dry density of 121 pcf and 14% moisture. Liquid Limit = 37, Plastic...
Can concrete increase entrained air content from the on site air test to hardened air content?
Equipment calibrations, cylinder weights and finishing all indicate a no air mix for this interior slab at 2-3%.
18 months later, they are witnessing delamination. Cores were taken and tested for...
Since rail is constructed with limited grades, I know I'm not the first to deal with this. When the rail goes from compacted fill to cut into bedrock (layered limestone and shale), I feel it will behave similar to a loading/unloading facility where the rail comes onto a fixed rigid structure...
I need to design a reconstruct of an area damaged by erosion. The area in question is at the top of limestone bluffs overlooking a major river. Total elevation difference is 120 ft.
The only thing I can think of is to excavate the material loosened by erosion, then build a drainage path for...
I just got a CBR of 125 with 12% fly ash added to the soil. Is that even possible?
LL = 50; PL = 12; PI = 38. USCS = CL/CH. We added the fly ash, waited 10 minutes, compacted to target density, waited 2 hours, soaked 4 days and tested.
I was trying to determine the design CBR for when the...
