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Monitoring/mitigating geohazards is focus of new group

February 28th, 2022

GeoStabilizaton expands its capabilities, making monitoring/mitigating geohazards focus of new data-focused work group. Analyzing geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing information are some of the capabilities of GeoStabilizaton International’s new Geohazard Asset and Monitoring (GAMM) group. Photograph courtesy of GeoStabilization International GeoStabilization International of Commerce City, Colo.—a geohazard mitigation firm specializing in emergency landslide […]

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Performance evaluation of a multi-span GRS–IBS

April 1st, 2019

The I-70 multi-span bridges (Figure 1) over Smith Road in Aurora, Colo., included design methodology changes that were classified as “experimental features,” and, thus, additional project funds were included for evaluation. In order to understand the geostructural performance of the multi-span geosynthetic reinforced soil–integrated bridge system (GRS–IBS), the abutment was instrumented with a vertical chain […]

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GSI to host webinar on MSE remediation and monitoring

February 28th, 2019

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) will sponsor a webinar “MSE Wall Remediation and Monitoring,” on March 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST. Geosynthetic Materials Association (GMA) member companies and their employees receive discounted rates on all GSI webinar and short course registrations. The GSI database of failed MSE walls indicates that 44 out of […]

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