Geotechnical Design Blog

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Hidden Champions: Outsourcing the Right Way

February 20 2019

Welcoming the government’s new playbook. The German economy is rightly lauded for its power and sustained levels of stable growth. The manufacturing sector in particular employs over 15% of...

Modified fills in residential construction? The answer is yes…

December 31 2018

We undertook some data collection recently – the charts below are hopefully self-explanatory A couple of points for context: These are fine-grained fills modified with either lime or lime/cement...

Climate Change: The most important chart in the world

December 31 2018

In these, divided times, unity in Katowice “Our common efforts didn’t consist solely of producing texts or defending national interests. We were conscious of our responsibility to people and...

Morandi bridge collapse Italy – Epic fail of infrastructure investment?

August 16 2018

Tragic Italian bridge collapse points to broader problems in infrastructure asset management Italy’s motorway operator, Atlantia, were delayed to the market opening this morning eventually opening over 21% down...

Crane operating ground engineering on a scottish construction site

What’s wrong with the Government’s new Construction Sector Deal?

July 16 2018

What’s wrong with the Government’s new Construction Sector Deal? As part of HM Government’s Industrial Strategy, a new Construction Sector Deal was quietly published on the 5th July. Just...

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@rejectedpapers @EngineerDustin @Dr_LPrendergast @engineers_feed Hmmm, for a state that's twice the size of Germany and part of the US's main energy corridor...our conjecture might not hold up to academic scrutiny - mainly anecdotal as practitioners. How do you find the ASCE as a lobby group in governmental circles?

6:10 pm · April 8, 2021

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5am, everyday as a Geotechnical Engineer... twitter.com/Yeats_Quotes/s…

5:57 pm · April 8, 2021

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@juliesarus Also, a long document scanned to pdf such that alternate pages are upside down...

5:56 pm · April 8, 2021

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@rejectedpapers @EngineerDustin @Dr_LPrendergast @engineers_feed We would say so. Largely every advanced economy in the world has sub-par infrastructure (see Biden infrastructure bill) and the industry, as a whole, is slow to innovate - the real hallmark of underfunding at the basic research level...

5:48 pm · April 8, 2021

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@EngineerDustin @Dr_LPrendergast @engineers_feed Why is research in Civil Engineering so underfunded? Why are we societally so poorly represented? Why is infrastructure investment so sparse and intermittent? Surely is should be a fixed measure of GDP/GNP like defence or health. Why isn't it apolitical?

4:17 pm · April 8, 2021

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