geotechnical

But, there is a geotechnical phenomenon that I suspect made things even worse.

So what’s a geotechnical engineer to do?

There’s really just one rule for structural and geotechnical engineers designing foundations: when you put something on the ground, it should not move.

The story of the Millennium Tower is a fascinating case study in geotechnical engineering.

All these factors added up to a lot more settlement than was initially anticipated by the project’s geotechnical engineers.

And just a warning that I’m straying a little into speculation here, since the geotechnical details of the extraction have not been widely reported.

It is both a gravitational necessity and a source of job stability to structural and geotechnical engineers that all construction great and small sits upon the ground.