Your single point of reference for all your Geotechnical Inquiries

News from Scotland

Total Items found:
Tunnel flooded near Edinburgh blocks trains in and out of city
ITV   08 August 2019   Scotland   Edinburgh  
Flooding at the Winchburgh Tunnel. Credit: @ScotRail / Twitter
<p>A major railway through Edinburgh has been flooded after heavy rain over Wednesday.<br />Trains in and out of Edinburgh were hit by flooding in Linlithgow, west of the capital, which caused the line between the town and city to close.<br />ScotRail has ...
Geologists discover ancient meteorite on the Isle of Skye, in Scotland
ZME Science   18 December 2017   Scotland   Isle of Skye  
A thin section of the meteoritic rock seen through a microscope. Image credits: Simon Drake
<p>Geologists exploring the Isle of Skye have uncovered something out of this world: evidence of a meteorite which bombarded Scotland 60 million years ago.</p>
Work to start at A82 rock fall site
LOCHABER NEWS   27 May 2015   Scotland   Inverness  
The site of the rock fall on the A82 earlier this year / Lochaber News
<p>WORK will start next week on a more permanent solution to stabilising the steep rocky slope where falling boulders closed the A82 Fort William to Inverness road for four days in March.</p> <p>The immediate problem between Invermoriston and Drumnadrochit ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Registration is now open! Register your place now at the XVI ECSMGE 2015
xvi-ecsmge-2015   28 April 2015   Scotland   Edimburg  
XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
<p>XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in September 2015.</p> <p>This is the latest in a long and distinguished line of such conferences to be held in Europe&rsquo;s great cities. It is the first to be held in Scotland and ...