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Does anyone know any good resources to learn a little more about soil conditioning? different types of conditioning and their applications etc. Any help would be appreciated. I would like something web based, or a conference of some sort more than just a text book, but i'll resort to anything...

Does anyone have any idea how much professional liability insurance costs of an individual, not part of a firm? Just curious.

Any civils out there working directly for one of the big oil and gas companies? At my old job I worked as a consultant doing alot of platform design, but I'm having trouble breaking into the large companies themselves. It seems they only want to hire petroleum, checmical, and mechanical. Any...

So an architect has asked me to work with him on the side doing small jobs. he would like me to develop and stamp foundation drawings for residential construction. I was wondering if anyone had any type of experience with that, and what the going rate for something like that is. Any info is...

I have seen alot of people posting about transportation and construction but haven't seen many post about civil geotech. Anyone else take this? pass/fail?

LA has started issuing license numbers. I know they're not all up yet, but mine was up. just FYI.

I have seen several people score a 49, that seems to be the highest. (and before everyone comes on and tells me that different tests have different cut scores, I am aware of that.)

I know this might be bordering on obsessive, but does anyone remember what time the emails typically came announcing whether you pass or fail. Basically I'm trying to find out a drop dead time, where if i haven't heard anything by that time, I will postpone any more stressing until the next...

Anyone else take the geotech afternoon? I thought the morning (which i was more worried about,) turned out to be fairly straightforward. The depth portion on the other hand was much harder than i anticipated. I didn't feel like I had prepared enough for the afternoon session. Anyone else in...

I was working through some of the six minute solutions problems, and I noticed that on 2 questions, they used different methods to calculate the answer. For one problem, when calculating the density of the clay soil below the water table they used the dry density*(1+w), for the second problem...

I have heard some pretty rough stories about the afternoon Civil: Structural session. I feel most comfortable with structural, but I recently changed jobs and don't have access to many of the code books required (my new company doesn't do any structural work.) I have ASCE 7-05, AISC, and ACI...