Ground Engineering News

Keep up to date with our current activities in ground engineering but also, check out our blog for longer form articles / opinion pieces on all things related to cone penetration testing (CPT), geotechnical design and temporary works design.

April 2021 Cone Penetration Testing Update

April 8 2021

The first quarter has been incredibly busy at GES for cone penetration testing. We’ve been working continuously on a series of CPT-consulting operations ranging from a detailed plot-by-plot foundation...

Scottish Construction Now coverage

February 11 2021

Whitburn-based GE Solutions Consulting Ltd (GES) has invested in a state-of-the-art Geomil Panther testing rig to offer cone penetration testing services to the UK & Ireland markets. GES worked with manufacturer Geomil Equipment...

Cone Penetration Testing Service Launch

October 17 2020

It was a long process and a big risk to take in 2020 but we’ve done it! Our new cone penetration testing rig has been just commissioned and is...

Superpile ’20 – A new kind of conference experience

June 20 2020

We attended SuperPIle ’20 virtually this year. Congratulations to the DFI for persevering and making a good show in difficult circumstances. Some terrific talks. We’d point in particular to...

DM2020 Cancelled

March 23 2020

Really disappointed that the Deep Foundations Institute’s DM2020 was postponed. Strange times indeed. However, we look forward to seeing everybody in Gdansk next July to present our paper “Some...

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7:29 pm · April 20, 2021 ·

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12:22 pm · April 18, 2021

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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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