Offered by Terrafix on 1 March 2005, 355 people attended the GE05 Geosynthetics Symposium at the Pearson Convention Centre where topics discussed were Landfill Design, Transportation, GeoPipes, Foundation Systems, and Hydraulic Engineering. Guest speakers included: Dr. Kerry Rowe, Jim Penman, Dr. Ian Moore, Dr. Kord Wissmann, Joe Fluet, and Dr. Chris Thornton.

Mr. Dennis Hewitt, President of Terrafix, at the GE05 registration desk
Mr. Dennis Hewitt, President of Terrafix, at the registration desk at 7am. Weather 10cm of snow but the true Canadians attended the day, total attendance 355.

Attendees relax during a coffee break in the Landfill Session room
Coffee break in the Landfill section seminar room.

Dr. Kerry Rowe during one of his two presentations Dr. Kerry Rowe of Queen’s University presented in two sessions, Barrier Systems for Waste Disposal and Geosynthetic Clay and Geomembrane Liners.

GE05 at day's end - the cocktail hour afforded people to meet in a relaxed setting.
Cocktail hour at 4pm with Mr. George Pippen of Arrow Construction Products talking shop with clients. Mr. Joe Fluet in the background.

We had a great day and the feedback has been excellent…our line up of speakers was top notch, no doubt about that, and to top it off, it was free to attend!!!

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