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From 23 to 25 May 2012 the annual meetings of the European Committee for Standardization on Geosynthetics (CEN TC 189) took place at UNI in Milano. For the first time, the meetings were chaired by Daniele Cazzuffi (CESI SpA, Milano), who was unanimously elected President of the Committee in January 2012, for a period of three years 2012–2014.
Cazzuffi is a geosynthetics veteran who also previously served as president of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Council.
The annual meetings in Milano were attended by more than 100 experts from 12 European countries and from the United States.
The European Committee on Geosynthetics was founded in 1989. It’s organised in six Working Groups devoted to the development of methods for mechanical, hydraulical and durability tests and, in particular, to elaborate the harmonised European standards for the various field of geosynthetics applications. These applications include landfills, contaminated sites, dams and reservoirs, canals and waterways, tunnels and underground structures, road and railways infrastructures, landslide stabilisation, drainage systems, erosion control, and many others. The harmonised European standards shall be accepted as national standards in all countries belonging to CEN.
The meetings in Milano represented a very good opportunity to update the international state-of-the-art of geosynthetic engineering, with special emphasis on the environmental advantages of the use of these materials and these technologies, as well as for the construction of safer containment and retaining structures in seismic areas.
The next European meetings will be held at BSI in London from 14 to16 May 2013.
