Physics-Based Risk Modeling Ranks Geohazards Along a 656-Mile Rail Corridor Emprise Concepts was awarded a U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant under Topic 25-FR3, Railroad Ground Hazard Mitigation Technology, to establish the feasibility of a real-time geohazard risk forecasting tool for railroads. Railroad geohazards including landslides, rockfall, and debris flows regularly produce losses exceeding $1 million per event, and exi

Real-Time Ground Model Updating Reduces Risk and Uncertainty in Construction Emprise Concepts, LLC, in collaboration with the Colorado School of Mines, is developing an innovative software-based framework to update geological and geotechnical ground models in real time during underground construction and tunneling projects. The Phase I effort focuses on developing and testing algorithms that integrate geotechnical instrumentation, monitoring data, construction equipment senso