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  • noun A branch of civil engineering related to soil and rocks

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  • Description Leading engineering consultancy specialising in all aspects of foundations, geotechnics and tunnelling, are looking to recruit a Senior Geotechnical Engineer into their Foundations and Geotechnics Division based in the South East.

    edie.net - Latest News 2010

  • Description Leading engineering consultancy specialising in all aspects of foundations, geotechnics and tunnelling, are looking to recruit a Senior Geotechnical Engineer into their Foundations and Geotechnics Division based in the South East.

    edie.net - Latest News 2010

  • Description Leading engineering consultancy specialising in all aspects of foundations, geotechnics and tunnelling, are looking to recruit a Senior Geotechnical Engineer into their Foundations and Geotechnics Division based in the South East.

    edie.net - Latest News 2010

  • Four Public Workshops lead by Dr de Freitas came from the Glossop Lecture on the following topics: The London Basin, Failure in mature landslides, Scale and its use in geotechnics and, The geotechnical significance of Boundary Layers of particles.

    edie.net - Latest News 2009

  • Cross Rail, Thames Water, the Olympic site, the new Thames Barrier and the like, and using this to re-evaluate the geological development of the Basin from the Mesozoic to the Present, so setting the geotechnics of the Basin into its geological context.

    edie.net - Latest News 2009

  • In agricultural soil management and in the reclamation of degraded land, improvement must be managed from a base understanding of fundamental properties of soil and water, including basic hydrology, hydraulics and geotechnics.

    edie.net - Latest News 2009

  • The research programme will draw on internationally leading research from across the University - for example navigation / positioning systems, geotechnics, structures, business and finance - and will initially be based within the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre

    Media Newswire 2008

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