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AUSTIN, Texas – TRI Environmental, Inc. (TRI), a leading international geotechnical, geosynthetic and erosion control materials services company, has announced the hiring of Abigail Beck, a design and CQA engineer with considerable experience in geomembrane-lined containment facilities in waste management and mining. She also has extensive experience with liner integrity surveys (also known as leak location/detection), an increasingly important and required environmental protection service in containment facility construction.
In her new position, Ms. Beck serves as a Senior Engineer and will introduce a new role to TRI as its Director of Liner Integrity Services. Her previous employment experience for GeoLogic Associates (previously Vector Engineering) encompasses over nine years of design and CQA engineering and 70 million square feet of liner integrity / leak location survey performance and oversight. In addition to chairing an international discussion panel at Geo-Frontiers 2011, her efforts at liner integrity / leak location survey education have included numerous technical papers, presentations and short courses world-wide. She continues to provide oversight for the liner integrity survey portion of the world’s largest continuously-lined lagoon project near Columbus, Ohio.
“TRI is committed to leading the industry in the field of liner integrity / leak location surveys,” says Sam Allen, Vice President of TRI Environmental, Inc. “We are excited to have Abigail join our team to spearhead that effort.”
Among its many services, TRI provides professional training with a special focus on construction quality. Ms. Beck’s deep experience in liner integrity surveys and containment design bolsters the company’s educational strengths in this area. Since 2004, TRI has provided training and audits to help engineering firms, regulators, facility owners and others learn how or improve their ability to test and verify the integrity of their geosynthetic barrier-lined facilities using geo-electric technologies. (This has been part of a joint venture with I-CORP INTERNATIONAL, Inc.) With both classroom and field education using test cells, these “CQA Weeks” have also included opportunities for education on proper design with geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs), compacted clay liners (CCLs), and other materials.
“The industry is in dire need of a liner integrity survey ‘hub’ where practitioners, designers, site owners and regulators can glean knowledge and share experience in an open, collaborative environment,” says Ms. Beck. “The goal of the program we are developing is to increase the quality and understanding of liner integrity / leak location surveys world-wide.”
The next CQA Week will be held in the spring of 2013 in Austin, Texas.
For more information on TRI;s geosynthetic, geotechnical, erosion and sediment control, wall block, and affiliated testing and training services, please visit www.geosynthetictesting.com, or contact Sam Allen at +1 512-263-2101, sallen@tri-env.com. For information on liner integrity / survey equipment services, please contact Abigail Beck at +1 512 623 0511, abeck@tri-env.com.
