Rob Winters, CSP Rejoins Geo-Solutions
Rob Winters, CSP, has re-joined Geo-Solutions as the Vice President of Risk Management. Rob works out of the Pittsburgh, PA office and is responsible for supporting the overall administration of the risk management and insurance programs of the company focusing on risk identification, risk transfer, and risk preservation. He has over 20 years of experience in Risk, Health and...
GeoEdmonton 2018
Geo-Solutions’ Nathan Coughenour continues his tour around Alberta, Canada this week with presentations at GeoEdmonton in Edmonton, AB. Nate’s tour started last week with a presentation at the Enviro Workshop in Calgary, AB titled “Specialty Construction Techniques for Environmental Applications”. Nate will be presenting about self-hardening slurries at GeoEdmonton with a presentation titled “Lessons Learned: Self-Hardening Slurries in Slurry...
Thanks for Stopping By Our Booth
Thanks to everyone who stopped at our booth or attended Dan Ruffing’s talk, “Soil-Bentonite Slurry Trench Cutoff Wall Longevity”, at the IFCEE conference in Orlando, FL last week. We really enjoyed the technical presentations, catching up with friends and colleagues, and the warm Orlando weather.
IFCEE 2018
Geo-Solutions will be exhibiting at the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo, March 5-10, 2018. The 2018 event will be held at the Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida. IFCEE 2018 is a technical conference and equipment show. Stop by and see us at Booth 124!Immediate Job Opening
Geo-Solutions has an immediate job opening for an HSE Coordinator to fill various roles on jobsites throughout the country. Job assignments can very from a few months to a few years depending on our clients’ needs and requirements. Extensive travel is required with this position and 3 week rotations home are available. Preferred candidates will have a 4 year...Dam Safety 2017
Visit Geo-Solutions at Booth #807, September 10-14, 2017 at the Association of State Dam Safety Officials 2017 Annual Meeting and Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Stop by and consult with our technical representative and Western Regional Manager, Mr. Steve Artman. Geo-Solutions has been providing innovative dam and levee solutions for over 30 years. https://damsafety.org/basic-page/dam-safety-2017-exhibitor-toolbox
Left-Field Loonies place 3rd at 2017 Red Bull Flugtag
Geo-Solutions (GSI) is a proud sponsor of a recent entry into the Red Bull Flugtag competition held in Pittsburgh, PA. This competition is held in several cities each year across the U.S. and the world. The competition requires teams to come up with creative, home-made flying machines that are launched 22 feet above water, to see who can fly...Stabilize, Support and Improve Conference in Washington, D.C
We will be exhibiting at the Deep Foundations Institute - Stabilize, Support and Improve Conference in Washington, D.C. on August 28-30, 2017. It is being held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, stop by and speak with our experts at booth 124.
Introducing the Geo-Trencher
Ideally suited for deep and narrow cutoff walls, in lieu of more conventional construction methods like slurry trenching, the Geo-Trencher is essentially a large mixing chain mounted on a tracked chassis. As a result, it can be used to mix soils in place with wet or dry reagents for creating an in-situ mixed-low-permeability cutoff wall or it can be...Geo-Solutions gets SMART
Evading Canadian winter field work, Canada Geo-Solutions' Regional Manager Pete Craig snuck into the Smart Methods in Advanced Remediation Technologies (SMART) seminar series in Toronto (January 26) and Ottawa (February 16) to present on cutting-edge Permeable/Passive Reactive Barrier (PRB) technologies and related installation methods, including biopolymer slurry trenching, soil mixing and the Geo-Trencher™ single pass continuous trenching machine. Pete's...Geo-Solutions: Technical Training for Professional Development
On February 8, 2017, in Edmonton, Alberta, Dan Ruffing, our US Engineering Manager, and Pete Craig, our Western Canada Regional Manager, were happy to support the Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA) by putting on a day-long technical course "Fixing Bad Ground In Situ" at ESAA's Environmental Business 2017 event at the Marriot Cree River. The course includes over...
Gold Shovel Certification
Geo-Solutions, Inc. has been approved for the Gold Shovel Standard Certification. It’s a first of its kind effort to create a North American scale program, driven by industry and underpinned by data technology, to unify excavation safety under a single broadly meaningful professional brand. The mission of Gold Shovel Standard is to both certify that excavators and locators have adopted...Meeting Presentation
Geo-Solutions would like to thank the Pittsburgh Geological Society and the Pittsburgh Chapter of ASCE's Geo-Institute for allowing Dan Ruffing the opportunity to present at their joint dinner meeting held at Foster's Restaurant on January 18, 2017. Dan's presentation was titled "Slurry Supported Excavations for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Applications". Dan would like to thank the 70+ engineers, geologists, and...Piano Key Excavation in Calgary, Alberta
Geo-Solutions recently completed a mass excavation and replacement using the cement-bentonite slurry supported excavation technique. This technique, sometimes referred to as a piano key excavation, can be used to excavate impacted or undesirable soils without the need for expensive dewatering or conventional excavation support systems. The cement-bentonite (CB) slurry serves as a liquid shoring and hardens in place to...