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Jefferson Public Radio   20 December 2018   USA   Washington  
<p>In the middle of Washington&rsquo;s desert, there&rsquo;s a tunnel that stretches a third of a mile underground.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s full of railcars with chemical and radioactive waste. Now, contractors at the Hanford cleanup site are racing to fill the ...
Filed under: Construction News
KING 5   26 February 2018   USA   Washington  
<p>Hundreds of bridges were slated for seismic retrofit in the 1990s, but so far, only a third have been fixed.</p><p>The state of Washington is now more than two decades into a program to retrofit the state’s vulnerable bridges.</p><p>In the 1990s, as the ...
Filed under: Construction News
KING 5   04 January 2018   USA   Washington  
<p>Officials have been monitoring a major crack on Rattlesnake Ridge since October.</p> <p>A potential landslide on Rattlesnake Ridge in Yakima County is threatening homes and Interstate 82 near Yakima.</p> <p>The area of concern is east of Union Gap, east ...
Next Reality   24 March 2017   USA   Washington  
<p>LOOOK, a Seattle-based mixed reality and development studio, can now peer into the future with their new geotechnical engineering visualization application for Microsoft HoloLens.<br /><br />Developed in partnership with BGC Engineering, a geotechnical ...
Phys Org   22 March 2016   USA   Washington  
<p>On March 22, 2014, a hillside above Oso, Washington collapsed, unleashing a torrent of mud and debris that buried the community of Steelhead Haven. Forty-three people lost their lives, making it one of the single deadliest landslide disasters in U.S. history.</p> <p> ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards