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Another note, if it makes a difference, it's for Sewer and Water, but it's also in a highway.

Hello I've searched online but could not find the information I need. If someone could reference the document I would need to find this info, that'd be greatly appreciated. I'm working on an SOE design for NYC Sewer and Water. I can't find any information on maximum depth of excavation per...

Hello All I was looking to start a side business for some extra income. I'm a Geotech PE. I was hoping to do small projects with quick turnarounds. Most likely residential properties, single family homes, or multiplex homes, small apartments, etc. Or even small business structures. These seem...

I'm looking to open up the attic in my personal home. I attached a rough sloppy sketch. The top is how the frame is currently in the attic. The bottom is how I would like to frame it to open it up. The dash lines are where the perpendicular part of the attic. Is this set up fine for the...

@GeoEnvGuy yeah it is ridiculous. My direct boss often fights with the other department heads regarding these issues. But they turn it around on him telling him he's not "being a team player". @CWB1 The only reason I'm here is for my direct boss. He's a great mentor and has given me more...

@geotechguy1 thanks for the valuable insight. It seems I need to figure out a specialization. I would love to do tunneling. @canwesteng , it's not typical, but they do it to keep the billables to themselves instead of "outsourcing to us". Departments with more billables are rewarded with more...

Back story: I work at a multi discipline company in the NY metro area. Often that we discovered the civil and/or structural department excludes the geotech department in project and try to do the geotech work themselves. About 9 out of 10 times, they screw up and we have to come in and save...

Hello The current company I work for do not pay for PDH courses and credits, whether online or in person. I was wondering if the cost for attending the conferences for PDH credits are tax deductible? And if so, is it just the course/conference, or would the travel also be deductible? Anyone...

He wants me to email it to him.

He's requesting I send it to him because he's suppose to submit it with his application. I have no idea if that's true.

Sorry, it wasn't a PMP. it's PMMP. Project Management Masters Program. It's at some small local college I've never heard of before.

If it was up to me I would have fired this employee a while ago just due to the cost and time of correcting his mistakes and his dishonestly about his timesheet and how long it takes him to do task. Or for the fact whenever he WFH, he doesn't do much work. But it's not up to me to fire him, nor...

Where are these free PDH that everyone keeps talking about?

Have a coworker who I manage. He's going to grad school for PMP. He asked me to be a reference for him for his grad school application. He drafted one up using ChatGPT (with spelling errors too) and gave it to me to sign. He extremely glorified his experience at the company and isn't an...

Groundwater is at 8 feet bgs. Dewatering is planned. I've never heard of ground freezing before. Did a quick search, looks very interesting. Will research more into it. Thanks for the info. Even with wells, SOE will still be needed due to boundary constrains. Can not do a sloped evacuation.

Client wants us to design the SOE but also guide in the installation of the SOE. We've calculated that the sheets have to go down to 72 feet so that we can excavate down to 42 feet for the mat foundation. However, within the proposed area, there's an existing 60" RCP that runs through the...

The manual just says the dosimetry badge only needs to be used while using the equipment. It doesn't say anything about people working at a station near the storage closet. His argument is that a badge is needed just to be in the vicinity and to have access to the soil lab (and passcode to the...

Hello Our geotech department has a soil lab and in the soil lab, the Troxler gauges are stored with two layers of penetration in a storage closet. Our lab manager restricts anyone without a nuke badge into the soils lab due to Troxler gauges being there (in a locked closet within the soils...

Thank you BridgeSmith for you insight.

Hello Thanks in advance for all who provide feedback. I've just started using this software, Ensoft SHAFT, in order to do a drilled shaft design for a project. It's for overhead sign structures. The problem I have is that tip resistance goes to zero half way into the weathered rock layer...