2025 Geohazards in the Rocky Mountains: Challenges and Innovations (42 PDH mins.)

Recorded April 8, 2025 Level: Basic/General with more intermediate material in case histories. We’ll discuss the design rock cuts in various metamorphic terrains as well as the design and implementation of rockfall mitigation options. Kinematic and Hoek-Brown failure modes provide methodologies in evaluating the structural geology conditions of mining highwalls or rock cuts associated with new roadway alignments, so we’ll present two case studies in how to apply these methods and the innovations needed to keep the practice moving.