The Coal Authority has appointed Leeds-based Soil Engineering to drill two boreholes up to 250m deep in County Durham to create mine water monitoring wells.
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Gloucestershire council approves £2.5M for landslide prevention
Gloucestershire County Council has earmarked £2.5M to secure a key county road currently subject to “cracking and subsidence”.
Socotec UK acquires ground penetrating radar and video survey firm
Consultancy, testing, inspection and certification solutions provider Socotec UK has acquired Bedford-based Impulse Geophysics for an undisclosed sum.
Imperial College London’s Lidija Zdravković to open 2024 GE Sustainability conference
Imperial College London computational geomechanics professor Lidija Zdravković will open the GE Sustainability conference with a session on “The application of advanced computational analysis to support the design of resilient structures”.
Watch: Insights into ground response to tunnelling through AI-empowered observational method
At the 2023 GE Smart Geotechnics conference, Imperial College London ground engineering professor Jamie Standing and geotechnics research associate Truong Le discussed the objectives of monitoring, data interpretation for tunnelling and an AI-empowered observational method.
Dam construction and heavy rainfall triggered 2019 Iran landslide, researchers find
Researchers have used InSAR data to show how reservoir construction combined with heavy rainfall triggered a landslide in north central Iran in 2019.
Watch: Fibre optic sensing: A distributed monitoring technology for earthworks
At the 2023 GE Smart Geotechnics conference, Jacobs head of geo-digital technology David Wright gave a presentation on fibre optics technology trials for monitoring earthworks on a High Speed 2 site.
Watch: Innovative approaches to monitoring soil-structure interaction
University of Cambridge civil engineering emeritus professor and Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction founding head Robert Mair gave the opening address at the 2023 GE Smart Geotechnics conference.
Interview: Rankine Lecturer Lidija Zdravković calls for sound soil mechanics for sustainability
Imperial College London’s Lidija Zdravković will deliver the 62nd Rankine Lecture on how computational methods and sound soil mechanics combined support the design of resilient structures.
‘Let’s be bolder in our design approaches and harness monitoring tech to mitigate risks’
A-squared Studio Engineers associate director Andrew Brindle on how the observational method can create a path to efficiency in retaining wall design.