Not so long ago we did a job down in Amanzimtoti. Routine we thought, and due to there being a crunch on and none of the youngsters were available, I decided that a day on site would be great and that we would get through the work quickly and be out of there by mid [...]
Archive | July, 2011
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute – A Centre of Geotechnical Excellence
by geoZone2 on July 4, 2011 in Uncategorized
The nascent Norwegian Geotechnical Institute had its origins in the years immediately following WWII in the form of The Office for Geotechnics. The first director was a Dane, Laurits Bjerrum who up until then had been head of the soil mechanics laboratory of ETH in Switzerland. The NGI in its present form was formalised on [...]