Layne GeoConstruction installed approximately 1,500 drilled micropiles, averaging 42 feet in length, in karst geological conditions for new foundation support.
Two geologists from the Geological Survey of Norway will drill into 2 billion year-old rocks in Russia to seek to understand the interaction between geological processes that created the modern-day Earth.
A hydrologist has been awarded a $190,000 grant from the World Bank to develop a system to provide villagers in rural India with safe drinking water. The solution: treating polluted surface water with riverbank filtration wells.
Using a specialty drill to create mile-and-a-half deep holes, researchers are building a huge “IceCube” at the South Pole, and it has nothing to do with cooling beverages. Their construction of a novel telescope will provide insights into astronomical phenomena.
A pair of 5.3-mile-long railway tunnels were constructed through the Hallandsasen ridge in southern Sweden. The tunnels have a diameter of nearly 35 feet. A special challenge for the project
At the Hope Plantation in North Carolina, the USGS Geologic Discipline (GD) Eastern Earth Surface Processes Team has been drilling a deep stratigraphic corehole. The drilling was conducted using a
Deep foundations specialist Koker Drilling Co., based in Vandalia, Ohio, has been installing drilled shafts for the Cayuga Generating Station Unit #1 and #2 Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization System Retrofit
The United States Air Force maintains several active military installations in southern Nevada. Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) is located on the northeastern edge of Las Vegas, and has been
Singapore Power Co. awarded Siemens/Samsung Engineering & Construction JV a $400 million project to build a 740-megawatt power station extension. A temporary cofferdam sheetpile wall and two permanent sheetpile lines
Each day, more than 14,000 cars and trucks travel the steep and winding approach roads to Hoover Dam. There, they cross the Colorado River by driving across the dam on
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