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Engineers Without Borders-USA has announced that GeoEngineers’ fall grant to EWB-USA’s 2012 Project Grants Program will support EWB’s Utah State University chapter’s Peru Team. The team’s water project will improve drinking water quality and availability to communities near the town of Pucara on the Peruvian Altiplano. On an earlier trip to Peru, the team undertook […]

The new ferris wheel located on the end of Pier 57 was a longtime dream of Hal Griffith, restaurateur and owner of the pier on downtown Seattle’s Elliott Bay. GeoEngineers was brought in on the design-build team by Manson Construction for this fast-paced project. The result of the team’s effort was a sturdy foundation for […]

Three geotechnical engineers from GeoEngineers’ Baton Rouge office, David Sauls, PE, Larry Sant, PE and Sunil Malla, PE, represented the company at the Deep Foundations Institute’s 37th Annual Conference in Houston, Texas, October 16-19, 2012. At the event, Larry Sant presented Design-Build Synergy to Deliver Pile Foundations, a paper the three co-wrote for the conference. […]

A crew of hardy volunteers from GeoEngineers’ Tacoma office, Teri Taylor; Eric Heller, PE, LG; Tricia DeOme, LG; Garrett Leque, LG and Dave Phelps, PE, participated in the fifth annual Green Tacoma Day on October 20th. The event was sponsored by the Green Tacoma Partnership, a public-private partnership between the City of Tacoma, Metro Parks, Forterra, and […]

Downtown On the Go (DOTG) has awarded GeoEngineers its 2012 Transportation Innovator Award in the Biking Strong Category. The award highlights GeoEngineers’ leadership and involvement in Bike Month 2012 events and was one of six awards presented October 12th at a Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber luncheon and Transportation Innovator Awards ceremony. Bruce Stirling, PWS, senior project […]

At 8 a.m., Bill O’Dowd and I pull into the Havener Student Center parking lot and walk across the street to McNutt Hall, the home of all Geosciences at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Dave Wronkiewicz shows up a few minutes later, and we begin our tour of MS&T laboratory facilities to review the […]

King Chin, PE presented a paper at Navigating Change 2012, the American Public Works Association (APWA) Oregon Chapter fall conference held October 2-5 at Gleneden Beach, Oregon. APWA serves individuals, agencies and private companies involved in public works and infrastructure issues. The national organization represents about 30,000 public works professionals and the Oregon chapter has […]

At 7:15 a.m. Tuesday morning, I meet Bill O’Dowd in the lobby of the Saint George Hotel and we walk down Main Street for breakfast at the Weston Café. The sun is just starting to come up and few people are stirring on the streets. While we are waiting for our orders, we strike up […]

Senior HR Generalist Matt Clarich and Baton Rouge Lab Manager Dale Ulkins represented GeoEngineers at Hiring Our Heroes, a job fair held in Baton Rouge on September 25th. Nearly 150 people attended the event, which was staged by the US Chamber of Commerce, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and a number of state and national […]

Exploratory borehole no. 2, Thomas HillAt 8 a.m. Monday, I meet Bill O’Dowd in a hotel lobby in St. Louis, Missouri. We load up the GeoEngineers’ pickup truck and head west on Interstate 70. In St. Charles, we cross the Missouri River for the first time and parallel the river all the way to Columbia. […]