Future Cities – Going Underground: At the end of the 19th century, architects coined a new term for buildings ascending the impossible heights of 10 whole storeys. They called them ‘skyscrapers’. For decades, upwards became the most alluring direction of… Read More
Meet the Seequent Civil & Environmental team’s Regional Business Development Manager, North America – Bart Jordan
Following on from our meet the Customer Solution Specialists article in December – this month we meet Bart Jordan, a professional Geologist who has joined Seequent’s Civil and Environmental team in Denver.
Unearthed – the cities of the future
By 2030 there are expected to be more than 40 megacities around the world with more than 10 million inhabitants each. Read about the impact on existing infrastructure and environmental complexities in our latest Unearthed report ‘The Cities of the… Read More
Meet Seequent’s Civil and Environmental Customer Solutions team
Seequent’s team of Civil and Environmental Customer Solution Specialists is expanding to better support our customers across the globe. We know how important it is for our Civil Engineering and Environmental customers to receive local and timely technical support, which… Read More
The importance of 3D modelling in designing a 18 km motorway from New Zealand’s Pūhoi to Warkworth
With an estimated cost of more than NZ$700m (including maintenance over 25 years), the 18km Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway extension includes a road corridor that cuts through steep hills and valleys, and the creation of seven bridges including three viaducts.… Read More
Combining technical eminence and digital technology
The objective of any ground investigation is to mitigate project risk. Embarking on a massive infrastructure project through an area of complex geology, including volcanoes, requires a very clear assessment of the ground conditions. This demanding task fell on the… Read More
Unearthed: where data will take Civil Engineering next
“The issues that swirl around data, from openness to ethics, and innovation to automation, are vast and varied. We see many different attitudes towards it in the industries we serve.” How will the smarter use of data transform the Civil… Read More
Testing the ground for Australia’s record breaking tunnels
Before you start one of the largest bored excavation projects in the world, you need to be very sure of the ground beneath your feet. In preparation for the massive West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne, Australia, it fell to… Read More
Can Implicit Modelling transform the civil engineering industry?
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” ― Abraham H. Maslow For years the geologists working on civil engineering and environmental projects have grappled with the challenge of building… Read More
Geotechnical data collection and presentation – It starts and ends with a vision
We’d like to share this article by Louie Human and Ben Jupp, Principal and Senior Consultants at SRK. The article gives some great advice on best practice approaches to Data Collection as the first step towards minimising uncertainty and input… Read More