GRI was part of a consultant team for the Vancouver Waterfront Park and Grant Street Pier project that took top honors as ACEC Oregon’s 2019 Project of the Year and received the People’s Choice Award! It was an honor to work with such a great team to create public access to the river for the […]
ASCE recently published an article in Civil Engineering Magazine about efforts the engineering community is making to protect coastal communities in tsunami inundation zones. The article highlights the innovative tsunami-resistant design of the Oregon State University Marine Studies Initiative Building—currently under construction in Newport, Oregon. GRI had the opportunity to conduct a subsurface exploration program […]
Three GRI geologists are presenting at the combined 61st Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) Annual Meeting and 13th International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) Congress. The first-ever combined Congress held in the United States will take place the week of September 15, 2018, in San Francisco, California. George Freitag is […]
One of the newest members of the GRI team, Nora Utevsky, GIT, recently volunteered at a 5-day, hands-on geoscience field camp for middle school girls at Mount St. Helens. In its third year, GeoGirls allows young women to explore the volcanoes in their backyard, the hazards they pose to human population, and the technology scientists […]
Full-Depth Reclamation of Pavement Full-depth reclamation (FDR) of pavement is an alternative rehabilitation technique that uniformly pulverizes and blends together stabilizing agents with worn-out asphalt concrete pavement and a portion of the underlying materials. The end result is a sustainable, cost-effective, and green approach to stabilized base course that is ready for a new pavement […]
In conjunction with STEM Network, an organization established by Ethiopian scientists and engineers who are working and living in the U.S. and Canada, GRI is collecting engineering textbooks to help support Ethiopian college students. What We Need We are collecting gently used (or new) engineering textbooks printed after 1990. Books should be in good condition […]
GRI is very excited to announce that Thomas (Tom) Gayne, a staff engineer for the GRI Vancouver office, passed the Oregon-specific Principles and Practice of Engineering exam in the fall of 2016 and can now add the initials PE after his name! Tom joined GRI in 2013 with a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from […]
Mike recently completed a 5-day rope access course in Bend, Oregon. Rope access refers to a set of techniques where ropes and specialized hardware are used as the primary means of providing access to GRI engineering geologists for geologic mapping. His 5-day course prepared him for successful completion of a written exam and field evaluation […]
The Port of Toledo Boatyard is owned and operated by the Port of Toledo, Oregon. The Boatyard is located just over 7 miles east of Newport, Oregon, on the Yaquina River and is quickly becoming Oregon’s premier service and repair facility with the addition of a new 660-ton mobile lift. The new haul-out structure consists […]
GRI is pleased to announce that George Freitag has been promoted to Principal! George has been a part of the GRI family for more than 22 years and has contributed greatly to our success. Not only is he an engineering geologist with 30 years of experience, he also leads our environmental services and business development efforts. […]
