The eighth annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium was held on November 22, 2024, at the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall. The symposium showcased current research works in the GeoSystems Engineering group at UC Berkeley and bridged academic and industry communities.… Read More »2024 Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium
Kenichi Soga delivered 11th Annual Pedro de Alba Geotechnical Engineering Lecture at the University of New Hampshire on Thursday, October 24, 2024 Figure 1. Role of Emerging Technologies in Realizing Smart Infrastructure
Kenichi Soga has been invited to speak at the Conference on Advancing Additive Manufacturing and Construction in Transportation, which will take place on November 7-8, 2024, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. His presentation is part… Read More »Kenichi Soga at Conference on Advancing Additive Manufacturing and Construction in Transportation
On Friday, October 25th, the UC Berkeley CEE Dept. hosted the inaugural CEE Highlights Event, attended by over 250 members of the vibrant community! Attendees enjoyed insightful talks from distinguished speakers on their expertise and perspectives on cutting-edge civil and… Read More »CSI at UC Berkeley CEE Community Highlights Event
On Friday, October 11, CSI in collaboration with EBMUD and Carollo hosted a workshop on building and testing hazard-resilient pipeline systems. Over 80 participants gathered to discuss innovative strategies for planning, designing, and recovering from various hazards associated with permanent… Read More »Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure Hosts Water Industry Workshop on Hazard Resilience
A geothermal network comprising borehole fields was built in Framingham, MA, to supply district heating and cooling. Through this project, LeGUp aims to explore the decarbonization potential of utilizing shallow geothermal as a sustainable energy source. Soga Research Group designed… Read More »DFOS Monitoring System for Learning from the Ground Up (LeGUp) Project
The 4th workshop of GOES project was held from Sep. 25 to Sep. 27, 2024, in Vienna. Soga Research Group remotely present their contribution of integrating the shallow geothermal into the building energy simulation and optimization. Primary works include introducing… Read More »Vienna Workshop of Geothermal-based Optimization Energy System (GOES) Project
Kenichi Soga has completed his term as chairperson of the Technical Committee 105 on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. This announcement was made during the 5th International Symposium on Geomechanics… Read More »Kenichi Soga Completes Term as Chair of TC105 on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro
CSI hosted a lab tour for the San Francisco Geo-Institute (SFGI) on August 29. An introduction to CSI was give by Clifford Chan, the general manager of EBMUD, and Kenichi Soga. Figure 1. Introduction by Clifford Chan Figure 2. Presentation… Read More »CSI + SFGI Tour
Kenichi Soga was an invited lecturer of the 26th International Conference of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), which was held on August 25-30, 2024 at Daegu, Korea. He presented a topic on large formation behavior of sols based… Read More »Kenichi Soga Gives Invited Lecture at ICTAM 2024 in Korea