Managing Geotechnical Assets to Improve Highway System Performance
As geoprofessionals, we have a great opportunity to look at our work in new ways and to show its value to others. Highway agencies are looking to get the most from their assets and with...

Condition Indices, Performance Measures, and Managing Performance Data for Geotechnical Asset Management – Don't Get Buried!
Why don't transportation agency assets like pavements, bridges, and earthwork have a Check Engine light? Why can't you simply pull up the complete history and life cycle plan for them?...

The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors: A Tale of Architectural Choice and Craftsmanship By Henry Petroski. New York City: W.W. Norton Company, 2014

The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success By Megan McArdle. New York City: Viking Penguin, 2014

Geo-Hubei 2014 244-255
Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, Innovative Technologies and Materials
Selected papers from the proceedings of the Geo-Hubei 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, held in Yichang, Hubei, China, July 20-22, 2014. Sponsored by the...

Calculated Examples of Long-Span Bridge Response to Wind

Wind Damage in Hurricane Frederic

Tornado Wind Effects on the Grand Gulf Cooling Tower

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong By Robert Bryce. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2014

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch By Lewis Dartnell. New York City: Penguin Press, 2014

Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works By Hillary Brown. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2014

The Transbay Transit Center: Breaking New Ground in Urban Geotechnics
A building boom centered around the construction of the new Transbay Transit Center (TTC) is transforming the South of Market neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, newly dubbed the Transbay...

Support of Excavation Challenges and Solutions at a Manhattan Excavation Site
This article discusses the challenges and alternate solutions encountered in 2012 during support of excavation operations at a medical center project site in Manhattan, NY. The project...

2014 Geo-Congress Wrap-Up
A recap of the 2014 Geo-Congress in Atlanta, GA....

Geotechnical Reliability – Ten Unresolved Problems
Geotechnical engineering deals with a world in which assured solutions seldom apply, and in which the famed early practitioners spoke proudly of accommodating uncertainty and judgment....

Communicating Risk in Geotechnical Engineering Practice
Three project situations are articulated with specific emphasis on an element of uncertainty or risk unique to each....

The Best Surprise is No Surprise: The Geotechnical Engineer's Ethical Responsibility to Say No to Bidding
The subsurface characterization work that a geotechnical engineer must perform is critical to the success of every project that requires the cooperation of the ground, regardless of whether...

Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty By Elizabeth Mitchell. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014

Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing By John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm. New York City: Columbia University Press, 2013

 

 

 

 

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