Passive vapor barrier mitigation systems generally involve two main components: the sub-slab ventilation system, and the actual membrane engineered to block vapors from passing through.
Check out this article I wrote in the LA Times local edition about our water shortage and what we can do about it.
This article I wrote was published recently in LA Times local papers. It doesn’t pertain to geology directly, but certainly worth a look.
Anyone who has lived in southern California long enough knows that this is fault country, and if you are a property owner you have an obligation to yourself to safeguard your property against damage from earthquakes. Earthquake prediction science is as yet not developed enough to know when one will strike.
Septic systems have a long history. For developers in the early days, it was cheaper and faster to install septic systems than to install public sewers. Starting in the late 1940s and into the 1960s, the widespread use of septic systems for sewage disposal, with little to no governmental regulation, contributed significant pollution and environmental problems to groundwater, slope instability, and degradation of soils.
What do you do when you need to be at three places at the same time? An experienced geologist or engineer in southern California will be challenged with this all the time. So you set up a Mobile Office! It’s not always pretty, but it should work. Here is a recent example from this week. I was on a job that required two contiguous phases of inspection, so I had to be there all day; but I had reports to write, proposals to send off, and workers to manage.
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