Geotechnical Design Blog

Read all about the latest advancements in geotechnical design and engineering – our thoughts, research findings and more

Three Key Geotechnical Takeaways from Rankine Lecture

March 27 2018

A super contribution from a great practitioner We didn’t have the pleasure of attending this year’s lecture1) but caught the live stream. Dr. O’Riordan certainly had some big shoes...

Becoming a Data Driven Consulting Firm

March 20 2018

In an era of ubiquitous technology, are engineers using their data well? At the time of writing, data, or rather the protection thereof, is very topical. Facebook’s share price...

GES services and experience in a pie chart

Ground Engineering Solutions – Consulting in Numbers

May 18 2017

GES in numbers…. We thought it would be cool to try to distill our experience in to a pie chart and numbers!...

Chart showing strength of cement stabilised soil

Looking at the Strength of Cement Stabilised Soil Differently

April 27 2017

We read with great interest the paper by Liu et al. in April’s issue of Geotechnique (see here). The paper examines the determination of representative strength of deep cement-mixed...

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12:22 pm · April 18, 2021

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The next AGS webinar on Ground Risk: Landslide Risk Reduction is taking place on 29th April at 11am. Tickets for the webinar start at £25 (Ex VAT) To register your place for the webinar, please visit: bit.ly/3uZjxEB vimeo.com/521367009

3:50 pm · April 12, 2021 ·

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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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