Buildings damaged by the flooding at Kilembe community. East Africa is currently suffering unprecedented destruction due to extreme precipitation that resulted in extensive floods and landslides. Rainfalls began in the past weeks and still continue to impact the local population and infrastructure. Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake in terms of area, which is spatially divided to…
KELLER has initiated a collaboration with the University Of Surrey, in United Kingdom in search of new concepts that will make geotechnical practices more sustainable. Keller has teamed up with Luke Deamer, a P.hD. Candidate in Sustainability, at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability. Despite he is with the university, his PhD research project is entirely…
Aerial image of Edenville dam breach. Thousands of people have been evacuated after 2 dams in Michigan breached following heavy rainfalls. Both the Edenville and the Sanford dams, distanced about 11 kilometers apart and situated 225 kilometers north of Detroit breached on May 19, 2020, resulting in extensive flooding in the vicinity of the region….
A, recently identified, unstable slope could collapse resulting in a massive tsunami in Alaska. The slope is located in Barry Arm, about 97 kilometers east of Anchorage. A letter, signed by 14 scientists that was recently published, warns about the hazardous impact of the potential landsliding. The region consists of sedimentary rocks which are tectonized…
AquaSoli applies a systems approach to integrate the interdependent facets of solar ground component design, coordinating execution to ensure foundation reliability. The ground component is comprised of the following elements: · Geotechnical evaluation · Civil design · Rack selection and layout · Foundation design · Civil ground work · Foundation installation These elements are often treated as discrete components. However, they…
Recovering value and performance by addressing foundation failure vulnerability For commercial and utility scale facilities, the comparative costs of various degrees of foundation risk abatement can be thought of in the following terms: · The incremental cost of experienced geotechnical site assessment, foundation design and early project involvement is thousands of dollars. · The cost of…
Amid thousands of homes in Texas that suffer damage from expansive clay soils and arguably improper structural and geotechnical design or Builders taking chances, this is just one case history that made it to the Texas Supreme Court. The following is by Wayne Slater of The Dallas Morning News (2007)….The house was constructed on what…
As reported by the Austin American Statesman, during the hot drought period in 2011 in Austin, the Austin Water Utility via spokesman Jason Hill reported 55 calls a week average concerning broken (leaking) water lines. The typical average during summer seasons is 35 to 40. “A good portion of the ones we are seeing are…
San Francisco, the land of leftist leaning ideology and now a leaning skyscraper. The Millennium Tower, sarcastically referred to locally as the “Leaning Tower of San Francisco” opened in 2009 but by November 2016 had settled up to 16 inches (based on publicly available reporting) and tilted 2 to 6 inches apparently to the northwest….
Located 20 miles southwest of New York City, the City of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is situated along the Elizabeth River. For the city’s 125,000 residents, living along the river has many benefits, but the benefits are not without flood risk. In order to manage the risk associated with potential flooding, a series of levees and floodwalls were…