Publication by the British Geological Survey of final borehole data packs and a full drilling report from the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Cheshire provides open access to high‑resolution geological, hydrogeological and geophysical logs for the Sherwood Sandstone aquifer. The dataset covers multiple cored and instrumented boreholes with continuous wireline logging, groundwater monitoring and core descriptions, giving engineers direct parameters for permeability, stratigraphy and faulting. Geotechnical, geothermal and energy‑storage designers can now calibrate numerical models, assess thermal and hydraulic behaviour, and de‑risk subsurface infrastructure in similar Triassic sandstone settings.

Georgia Tech’s Geosystems group has released high‑resolution digital scans of Prof George F. Sowers’ handwritten Harvard course notes from the late 1940s, capturing original lectures by Karl Terzaghi and Arthur Casagrande on topics such as effective stress, consolidation and stability analysis. The archive, drawn from Sowers’ time as a graduate student, preserves worked examples, early design charts and problem sets that pre‑date many modern textbooks. Practitioners gain direct access to primary teaching material from the formative period of modern soil mechanics for reference, teaching and historical comparison.

New British Geological Survey mapping of the upper 2m of seabed across the UK North Sea shows highly variable near-surface geology, challenging assumptions of relatively uniform sands used in many cable burial designs. The work identifies rapid lateral changes between sands, gravels, soft sediments and lag deposits at scales relevant to ploughs and jetting tools, with implications for trench stability, target burial depths and pull-out resistance for subsea power and telecoms cables. Designers may need denser geophysical and geotechnical sampling and more adaptable burial equipment specifications.