Geotechnical News December 2010
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Short Courses
Geotechnical Services, Inc.
Expands to Ft. Collins, Robert
Dornfest New VP Named
Geotechnical Services, Inc. (GSI)
has expanded their operations to
include a
new office in Fort Collins,
Colorado. GSI is a major provider of
geotechnical engineering services in
the Midwest with seven other offices
in
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
Heading up the Fort Collins branch
office is
newly named Vice President
Robin Dornfest, a ten-year veteran in
the fields
of geotechnical engineering
and engineering geology, and Fort
Collins
resident since 2000.
Dornfest has worked on a wide vari-
ety of projects throughout the US,
in-
cluding dams and reservoirs, large pub-
lic works projects, earth retention
and
dewatering projects, and geologic haz-
ard evaluation and mitigation
projects.
Additionally, he has co-authored sever-
al publications related to
research and
projects.
He knows the subsurface
geology of the region and its potential
for impacting projects.
The new office is located at 1136
East Stuart Street, suite 2040, Fort
Collins Colorado 80525.
Geotechnical Services, Inc. is a
veteran-owned consulting firm spe-
cializing
in geotechnical engineering,
environmental services, professional
drilling,
construction materials test-
ing (CMT), and special inspection ser-
vices.
Geotechnical Instrumentation
for Field Measurements
Cocoa Beach, Florida
April 3-5, 2011
This continuing education course
will include presentations by users of
instrumentation from USA, England
and France. There will also be
technical presentations and instrument
displays by major manufacturers of
geotechnical instrumentation from
USA, Canada and Switzerland.
To reflect modern trends, there
will be new lectures since the previ-
ous course in 2009, including web-
based monitoring, wireless monitor-
ing, emerging technologies and on-line
sources of information, and more case
histories than last time. There will also
be an opportunity for registrants to sub-
mit, to the Course Director prior to the
course, questions and requested discus-
sion topics, and a half day has been as-
signed for responding to these requests.
Emphasis will be given to obtain-
ing high quality data to help answer
specific geotechnical questions for the
management of RISK.
The Course Director is John Dun-
nicliff
See page 33 for more details, or visit
