About our Sessions

The Lecture consists of a series of 13 short exposes on geotechnical engineering case histories. They include:
1. The Washington Monument (USA),
2. The Transcona silo (Canada),
3. The St John’s River Bridge (Canada),
4. The Panama Canal (Panama),
5. The Rissa landslide (Norway),
6. the Eiffel Tower (France),
7. The Tower of Pisa (Italy),
8. St Isaac Cathedral (Russia),
9. the Burj Khalifa (UAE),
10. The Three Gorges Dam (China),
11. The Kansai airport (Japan),
12. Teton Dam (USA),
13. Briaud’s house (USA).
The topics covered are bearing capacity, settlement, slope stability, retaining walls, and seepage. For each case history, the problem is presented, its solution discussed and the lessons learned are outlined.