Australia has been the center of a great deal of activity in geotechnical and geosynthetics-related events over the past few years. The Australian Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (ACIGS) has grown steadily and Engineers Australia has increased its already strong professional development portfolio. The interaction between these groups has been exceptional, launching events, lecture series, and all in all raising the profile of various geotechnical and geosynthetic advances and options.
The opportunities continue to emerge, with the 7th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (7 ICEG) opening its Call for Abstracts. To be held 10-14 November 2014 in Melbourne, Australia, this International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), TC 215 Environmental Geotechnics event will be hosted and organized by Engineers Australia. And geosynthetics veteran Prof. Malek Bouazza is serving as the conference chair.
In his invite letter, Prof. Bouazza writes, “This Congress aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in Environmental Geotechnics and related disciplines to discuss the advances which have been achieved in the past 20 years or so.”
In support of this, the Call for Abstracts invites Oral and Poster presentations on the subjects of:
- Planning, legislation and regulatory control
- Containment and management of waste
- Contaminant fate and transport assessment
- Soil, ground vapour and groundwater remediation and redevelopment of derelict land
- Landfill gas management and greenhouse emission abatement
- Energy related geoenvironmental technology
- Waste containment facilities closure and aftercare
- Waste management of disaster affected areas
- Biogeotechnical Engineering
- Developments in geosynthetics for environmental protection.
Abstracts submissions are due 29 November 2013.
Learn more in the Abstracts Template (.doc) and visit the Call for Abstracts page on the event website.
NOTES: Authors are asked to note their preferred presentation style (oral or poster)…. A number of peer-reviewed journals have agreed to dedicate a special issue to mark this special event: Geosynthetics International, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Environmental Geotechnics, and International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories…. Prizes will be awarded for the best poster and presented papers.
