Bernardi Joins Strata Systems as Director of Engineering
Strata Systems, Inc.has made another big addition to its team, adding Michael Bernardi, P.E. to a role as Director of Engineering. Bernardi has extensive reinforcement design experience, including 30+...
UPDATE: IGS Regional Conferences in 2016
In addition to their own chapter/national events, chapters of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) support quadrennial regional conferences. In 2016, multiple events will take place, bringing together the Americas,...
Titan Environmental Containment Continues to Strengthen Business
In a little under a decade of operation, Manitoba-headquartered Titan Environmental Containment has built a strong team and reputation, with operations expanding to cover all of Canada and the...
South Africa: GIGSA Targets Growth for Geosynthetics
In the spring issue of the GIGSA News, published by the Geosynthetics Interest Group of South Africa, new president Edoardo Zannoni (Maccaferri) outlines the groups ambitious plan to expand...
STGEC 2015 Coming to Greenville
The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) will host the 46th Annual Southeastern Transportation Geotechnical Engineering Conference, which offers geosynthetics, geohazards, erosion control, and other geotechnical professionals an excellent...
3 IECA Opportunities, 3 Deadlines
The International Erosion Control Association (IECA Region One) rarely enjoys a quiet moment. The organization is very active in education, event management, and general promotion of expert and issues...
Association of Geohazard Professionals (AGHP) Continues Growth
In North America, the field of geohazard mitigation is quite young. Around the world, however, it is a strong field of geotechnical design. Geohazard experts also utilize or their...
GeoAmericas 2016 Expanding Booth and Sponsorship May 21
The quadrennial Pan-American conference on geosynthetics—GeoAmericas 2016—is an event from the International Geosynthetics Society. As a result, IGS Corporate Members have had an exclusive window in which to request...
Reinforced Rockfall Protection Bund in Val d'Isère
By NAUE Geosynthetics - Val d'Isère in Southeastern France is famous as a winter sports area. But the beautiful mountains surrounding the valley, which is situated at an altitude...
Moraci to Lead Italian Geotechnical Society
By Daniele Cazzuffi - Nicola Moraci, Ph.D., an IGS Council member, full professor of Geotechnical Engineering, and Head of Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICEAM) at the Mediterranean...
Environmental Connection 2016 Abstracts Due May 29
The International Erosion Control Association (IECA Region One) is accepting abstracts for Environmental Connection 2016 through May 29. Environmental Connection is the annual conference and exhibition of the association,...
Inaugural Report from IGS Technical Committee on Filtration
The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) has established multiple technical committees to facilitate even stronger exchange of information between its global members. The IGS Technical Committee on Filtration has issued...
Geosynthetics Support Wind Energy's Rapid Growth
Since 2008, the wind energy industry in the United States has attracted more than $100 billion in private investment. While the first three quarters of 2013 were slow amidst...
GeoAmericas 2016 Opens Booth and Sponsorship Pre-Sale
Corporate members of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) have an exclusive 21-day window in which to file exhibit hall booth and conference sponsorship requests for GeoAmericas 2016. The quadrennial...
VIDEO: Geotextile Mattresses in Shoreline Protection
ACE Geosynthetics has uploaded a new video on the role of geotextile mattresses in scour protection. View it here and see more like it on the company's YouTube channel.
Brazil Geosynthetics Market Newsletter Emerges
Late last year, Geosynthetica began a long-term publication project in partnership with the the Brazil geosynthetics community. Geosynthetica.net.br was created to deliver Brazil-market focused information on geosynthetics, applications, companies...
5 Stories on Geosynthetics for Earth Day
Geosynthetics have played a substantial role in making constructions more economical and more sustainable. In honor of Earth Day 2015, we’ve selected five of Geosynthetica’s most popular sustainability-related stories.
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Looking Back: The Geosynthetics Risk Management Program
In 2004, Geosynthetica's Director Elizabeth Peggs, Lara Costa, and founder Dr. Ian D. Peggs, P.E. (I-CORP International) created a white paper that proposed a Geosynthetics Risk Management and Loss...
IGS News Focuses on International Engineering Events
The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) has just release Volume 31, Issue 1 of its IGS News. Published three times per year in support of the often-updated news on its...
GeoAmericas 2016 Abstracts Deadline Extended to April 10
As is always the case, a crush of abstracts is received right at the deadline … along with many requests for an extension. In light of this, and to...
IGS Relaunches Educate the Educators Program
In the 1990s*, geosynthetic material development, polymeric research, and wide-scale manufacturing advances helped the field mature quickly. Regulatory support, such as the RCRA Subtitle D rule from the US...
Strata Launches New Soil Reinforcement Website
Soil reinforcement products specialty company Strata Systems, Inc. has relaunched its www.geogrid.com website. The reinvigorated design, with an emphasis on images that visually display the complexity in geosynthetic soil...
GeoAmericas 2016 Sponsorship Supports Haiti Redevelopment
When the 3rd Pan-American Regional Conference on Geosynthetics convenes in Miami in April 2016, it will do so with a truly unique sponsorship program for an engineering conference. Geosynthetics...
Geogrids reinforcing the growth of Pardis near Tehran
Pardis, which is situated on the east side of Tehran, is a fast-growing community of 40,000. Multiple technology, manufacturing, and services businesses have come into the area, and that...
Deadline Reminder: GeoAmericas 2016 Abstracts
The deadline is fast approaching for GeoAmericas 2016, the 3rd Pan-American Regional Conference on Geosynthetics. Organized by the North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS) and Minerva Technology, Resources & Information,...
