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In Australia, the Wagga City Council is defending its $2.85 million budget for a key roundabout's construction. The Council has cited the need to spend $100,000 every six or seven years on significant rebuilds with conventional techniques; but the use of geosynthetics, such as geogrids, has a design life of approximately 30 years with significantly less maintenance needed in that service life. Learn more here.;

Tensar’s "Keeping You in the Know" video series is a Q&A influenced campaign. In the first video, Senior Product Manager Jonathan Cook (Tensar International Limited) addresses questions on tensile...

Layfield is an industry leader in polymer film, geomembranes, and geotextiles with a mission to Protect Our Families, Our Communities, and Our Environment. Layfield is looking to add a...

The Presto Geosystems team continues to grow. The company has announced that it is adding a Business Development Manager for a technical sales position in North America. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER The...

Civil engineers and construction professionals will meet international speakers, network with top-tier geohydraulics solutions companies, acquire practical engineering information to implement immediately, and have the opportunity to take part...

GeoAfrica 2017 will be held 8 – 11 October 2017 in Marrakech, Morocco. The conference, which is centered on the theme of “Geosynthetics in Sustainable Development in Africa”, is the 3rd African...

The historic moat in Delitzsch, Germany had been losing water for decades and threatened to become swampy. Renovation plans included the planting of reeds. To prevent reed roots from...

The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Young Members Committee has opened a competition for a new logo design. A couple prizes are in play for this free-to-enter competition, which is...

A few years ago, the International Geosynthetics Society revived its Educate the Educators program. The initiative was developed in the early 1990s to help educate engineers, regulators, and academics...

Norway-based Realfokus AS is now targeting the US for the next iteration of its trivia board game targeted to scientists, engineers and techies. The original version, Ingeniørspillet, is being adapted by a Boston-based Realfokus colleague as a game known as Engineerius and marketed by a newly formed US company by the (somewhat over-the-top) name of Heuristic Edutainment. An open online form dovetails on the crowd-source movement and invites questions and answers from engineering and science communities (though a March 4 blog entry indicates the game is very far along in its first American version). Want to contribute a question/answer on geosynthetics? Visit http://aladdin.realfokus.com/engineerius. Learn more here.;

The forum, Geosynthetics in Engineering : Moving Towards New Application Practices, was held in Quebec City, Canada, on February 11-12, 2004, and gathered about 150 participants. Cont'd 2/16/04 The 2-day conference was about geosynthetics applications to road construction & rehabilitation and environmental applications - Barry Christopher, Dave Suits, George Koerner, Andre Rollin, Bob Denis, Eric Blond and others presented excellent papers. Abstracts to follow shortly. A short report from Terrafix's Bruno Herlin follows: "Being in attendance for only one day of a two day event at the Forum Geosynthetics 2004 Conference in Quebec City organized by Sageos, my observations and comments as a delegate to this forum was that organizers at Sageos put together a list of speakers, papers, and information which would rival any industry related conference on geosynthetics. The quality of the presentations provided at this forum was very informative and top notch. It offered all those in attendance an added update on the industry and provided everyone with items to add to their own personal bag of tricks to use for upcoming projects requiring geosynthetic solutions. As per George Koerner's comment during his presentation 'Geosynthetics…they can do the job, they have shown that they work, we as engineers and designers would have to be negligent not to use them'. This statement got everyone's blood flowing in the room. The forum was presented in both official languages. A complete package of the forum can be purchased from Sageos, however a package doesn't replace the added information which was supplied from a list of highly educated presenters put together for this forum. The added benefit of this forum in particular is the small venue atmosphere, an atmosphere which other geosynthetics conferences should follow. The small venue offered an atmosphere where all can communicate to exchange information, something which is lacking when conferences are held in large venues. Not to be missed, are future forums to be presented by Sageos later this year. From Quebec City signed, Bruno Herlin, P.Eng. Project Engineer, Terrafix Geosynthetics Inc."

Low & Bonar, an international manufacturer of geosynthetic and other materials, has announced its acquisition of Slovakia-based Texiplast, a reinforcement-specialized geosynthetic materials company. The deal is reportedly worth €18.9m...

The annual Waterproof Membranes conference from AMI returns to Cologne, Germany  7 – 9 November 2016. The Waterproof Membranes 2016 program has been released. This edition is the conference's 10th. DOWNLOAD...

The City of Angola, Indiana and Tri-State University will offer a free half-day workshop on erosion and sediment control techniques, materials and issues in construction. Builders, contractors, developers, engineers, municipal officials and employees are among those who will find the workshop useful. To register, call J.D. Smith at 888 262 2214 or Eric Henion at +1 260 624 2663. Learn more here.;

In Charlotte County, North Carolina, a non-profit organization has spearheaded construction of a $38 million hiking, rafting and climbing park. The manmade whitewater course is perhaps the first of its kind and uses a synthetic liner to prevent leakage through and wear against the concrete liner. Learn more here.;

Geosynthetica opens its 2017 series of GeoTalk podcasts with a conversation about sedimentation, dams, and watershed health. Our guest is Craig Benson, an International Erosion Control Association Board Member...

R. Baker and Son All Industrial Services, Inc., a specialized contractor providing total plant dismantlement, demolition and decommissioning services, recently completed an eight phase, highly technical, demolition and environmental remediation project at Kings County Hospital located in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to underground tank removal, the project involved slab and foundation removal followed by geotextile installation and clean fill.

By Bruno Pedroni and Chris Kelsey – When BW Expo 2017 takes place in São Paulo 7 – 9 June 2017, it will do so with a first for...

Carlisle Energy Services offers a quick look at the construction of its Spectro PowerCap™ at Republic Service's Hickory Ridge Landfill. Recently unveiled to the public, the 48-acre site is the world's first commercial-scale exposed membrane solar cap on a landfill. (And that's American Environmental Group Ltd. performing the membrane installation.) Carlisle has made a case study of the project available in PDF.

Andy Durham of Propex GeoSolutions discusses TRM durability and UV performance in erosion and sediment control materials--part of the company's "Are you sure?" campaign to improve engineering and construction...

Propex GeoSolutions is increasing its profile in the coal combustion residuals market. The company announced the addition of Wesley Michael as its CCR Market Segment Manager. Michael is an...

Geotextile tubes are used in a wide variety of applications, such as coastal protection, flood defense, industrial processing, wastewater treatment, and dewatering. The use of dewatering tubes is quite...

Waterways are dynamic environments. Strong hydraulic engineering solutions are needed to create resilient infrastructures that minimize environmental impact, control costs, and provide long-term performance. On July 14, Maccaferri will...

The International Erosion Control Association (IECA) Region One will honor winners of its Awards of Environmental Excellence during a special program at Environmental Connection 2015, which will be held...

Е.В. Федоренко - Армогрунтовые подпорные стены устраиваются, как правило, в случаях ограниченного места в зоне откосной части насыпи или в виде устоев мостов с раздельными функциями . В тех...