I have uploaded the presentation Steve gave at Geo-Florida 2010 on February 24th. You can find it on our Presentations page or by clicking the image below. Enjoy!
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March 01st, 2010 | Author: Robert Thompson
Category: Drilled Shafts, Load Testing, Recent DBA News, Site updates
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February 25th, 2010 | Author: Robert Thompson
It has been a little while since we last visited the John James Audubon Bridge site in New roads, Louisiana. My how things have changed! I just have a couple of pictures of the piers from January – it is really looking like a bridge now! For frequent updates, check out the webcam and the photo albums on the project web page. The web cams have a really cool time lapse button that shows you a time lapse loop of the pier from the beginning of construction.
UPDATE (2/28/10) - I added 3 new photos to the slide show that were taken this last week. At that time the piers were at lift 21 and were about elevation +335 feet (the top of the sheet piles at the foundation level are about elevation +50 feet).
Category: Drilled Shafts, Site updates
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February 25th, 2010 | Author: Robert Thompson
We’ve added a “Follow DBA” widget to our upper right sidebar that contains these six icons, all clickable, with a line of text underneath them that reads:
“Follow the DBA blog via email or RSS; view us on YouTube & Picasaweb; follow us on Twitter & Facebook.”
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January 18th, 2010 | Author: Robert Thompson
DBA is growing again with the addition of Tim Siegel, P.E. to our team!
Tim has been primarily involved in the analysis and design of geotechnical structures including drilled shafts, cast-in-place piles, micropiles, and earth retention systems. Tim is a Georgia Tech grad (like Dan!) and has worked most of his career since at S&ME and Berkel & Company Contractors, Inc. During his 12 years with S&ME, he advanced from Geotechnical Engineer to Technical Principal and Chief Engineer while developing expertise in construction in karst, seismic design, numerical modeling, and specialty foundations and retaining systems. After leaving S&ME, he was a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with Berkel and was involved in large deep foundation projects all over the United States. While at Berkel, he led the development of the ground improvement technique using Berkel’s ground displacement technology. While at S&ME and then while at Berkel, he taught upper level and graduate level courses while on the faculty of the University of Tennessee. Tim’s resume can be found in the About US section of our site.
We are really glad to have Tim joining us. As you can see by his photo, he has the requisite hair style!
Category: Recent DBA News, Site updates
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December 18th, 2009 | Author: Robert Thompson
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a great year in 2010!
Comments are welcome on which of the elves are Aaron, Paul, Robert, and Steve.
(Image form our Christmas Holiday card purchased from www.KerstenCards.com)
Category: Miscellaneous, Recent DBA News, Site updates
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December 18th, 2009 | Author: Robert Thompson
I have updated our calendar for 2010 to include many events in the geotechnical and foundation engineering world that may be of interest, plus known speaking/teaching appearances by Dan. I’ll put in a plug for the events calendars and listings for ADSC, DFI, Geo-Institute, and PDCA. I get most of my information from them.
Some, but not all events,(in addition to my previous post) are:
DFI Helical Foundations & Tiebacks Specialty Seminar – Feb 1
DFI and PDCA – A Joint Conference on Driven Pile – Mar 12
ADSC Drilled Shaft Foundations Seminar – Mar 19
PDCA 14th Annual International Conference and Expo – May 6-8
2nd International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing – May 9-11
International Bridge Conference 2010 – June 6-10
Earth Retention 2010 – Aug 1-4
DFI 34th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations – Oct 12-15
TRB 7th International Bridge Conference – Dec 1-2
Category: Drilled Piles, Drilled Shafts, Driven Piles, Micropiles, Miscellaneous, Recent DBA News, Site updates
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November 30th, 2009 | Author: Robert Thompson
I am slowly learning and working on getting DBA involved in using some of the social media tools that are very quickly becoming popular means of communicating. DBA has a Facebook Page where you can become a Fan of DBA and see what we are doing. You can also follow us on Twitter. This blog will feed to both of those locations.
And as I previously posted, we also have all our photos on 
Picassa Web Albums and have videos on 
YouTube.
And as always, you can also subscribe to our RSS feed.
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November 30th, 2009 | Author: Robert Thompson
An article on the kcICON bridge project was published in the November 2009 issue of Roads and Bridges magazine. The article was written by Pat Cassity, P.E. of Parsons Transportation Group, Brian Kidwell, P.E. of MoDOT, and Pat Byrne, P.E. of Massman. The on-line version is here. I have also posted a PDF on the kcICON page our Consulting Projects page you can access by clicking the image below.
Category: Drilled Shafts, Miscellaneous, Site updates
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November 03rd, 2009 | Author: Robert Thompson
I have added the paper that we wrote and Dan presented at the Deep Foundations Institute 34th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations that was held in Kansas City, MO late last month. The paper highlights how the design-build process was successful in the design and construction of the large diameter drilled shafts supporting the bridge. We discuss the installation methods used, the load test program, and how we evaluated the durability of the shale rock sockets under drilling fluid.
You can check out the progress of the bridge at the project website.
Category: Drilled Shafts, Recent DBA News, Site updates
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As part of our ongoing attempts to try to get in front of the technology pack (or at least not fall behind!), We’ve installed a WordPress plugin called WPTouch that allows for much faster optimized viewing of the this DBA blog when using the iPhone, iPod touch, Android (Google), BlackBerry and other touch-screen mobile devices. The photos below are are of a G1. Your results will vary by model.
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