Geotechnical News • March 2016
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THE GROUT LINE
Paolo Gazzarrini
Overture
42nd episode of the Grout Line and,
as promised, for this issue, the second
part (of three) of the article written
by Clif Kettle, Technical Manager,
Bachy Soletanche Ltd., Burscough,
Lancashire, UK,(clif.kettle@bacsol.
co.uk) and Maren Katterbach, Project
Engineer, Lombardi Engineering Ltd.,
Minusio, Switzerland
.
I was obliged to split the four very
interesting case histories about grout-
ing and the application of the GIN
method (two case histories each) due
to the length of the article (I don’t
want to monopolize Geotechnical
News!
J
), so stay tuned in June for
the third part!
Before the article some of very impor-
tant news for our grouting industry.
The first is related to the Grouting
Fundamental & Current Practice 37th
Annual short course. As you can see
from the pamphlet below, the venue
has changed to the University of Aus-
tin, Texas, still in June 2016
Prof. Scott Kieffer, course director,
sent me this brief new presentation of
the course:
37th Annual Short Course:
Grouting Fundamentals &
Current Practice
June 13-17, 2016
University of Texas at Austin
Since 1979 the Grouting Funda-
mentals and Current Practice course
has covered the applications of
pressure grouting to a broad array
of geo-structural construction and
remediation techniques. Grouting is
instrumental in the construction of
modern complex infrastructure, as
well as in the remediation of our aging
infrastructure, including dams, levees,
