InnoTrans 2014 Services, Berlin September
InnoTrans 2014 will be held in Berlin, Germany 23 - 26 September 2014 when many of the world's geosynthetics and affiliated geotechnical experts will be attending the 10th International...
African Venture Wins 2014 World Bioenergy Award
The 2014 World Bioenergy Award has been awarded to Jörgen Sandström from Sweden.
He is head of the company Addax Bioenergy in Sierra Leone, which on a commercial basis is...
Environmental Connection Extends Abstracts Deadline
The International Erosion Control Association (IECA Region One) has extended the abstracts submission deadline for Environmental Connection 2015 to June 16. Environmental Connection 2015, the annual conference and exhibition...
AGHP Establishes Geohazard Committees
The Association of Geohazard Professionals (AGHP) is a new professional association that has emerged to serve and promote an engineering sector that has been largely unsupported in the United...
IECA and WEF Announces Memorandum of Understanding
DENVER, Colo. – 29 May 2014 – The International Erosion Control Association Region One (IECA) and the Water Environment
Federation (WEF) announce their new memorandum of understanding.
The purpose of this agreement is...
Sneak Peek: GWMS 2014 Publishes Extended Abstracts
The biennial Global Waste Management Symposium will be held 22 – 24 June 2014 in Orlando Florida. GWMS 2014, organized by Penton, offers a strong international perspective on waste...
Interview: Boyd Ramsey on WRRDA’s 7-Year Itch
Following the historic and overwhelmingly bipartisan passage in the US House and Senate of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA), Geosynthetica’s Chris Kelsey talked to Boyd Ramsey,...
Persistence of GMA Pays off with WRRDA Passage
The effort to get geosynthetics specifically mentioned in the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) extends back many years. It began, in fact, roughly seven years ago following...
WRRDA Passes; Cites Sustainability and Durability of Geosynthetics
On May 22, the US Senate passed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA). The $12.3 billion conference report, passed by the House on May 20, enjoyed staggeringly...
Stronger NOLA Levees with Geogrids
The human and infrastructure devastation inflicted by 2005’s Hurricane Katrina has led to years of levee design revisions and reconstructions in the New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA) region. The United...
Senators Applaud Final Passage of Bipartisan, Bicameral Water Infrastructure Bill
Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and EPW Ranking Member, Senator David Vitter (R-LA), issued the following statement after the...
History of CTM Geosynthetics
A brief history of CTM Geosynthetics - The late Shri Lajpatrai Chatarbhuj Agarwal belonged to Bawanikhera, situated in the State of Haryana. He was one among the few entrepreneurs...
Siemens to Provide 150 Wind Turbines to Dutch Offshore Project
15 May 2014 - The Gemini consortium has signed all construction, operations and financing contracts yesterday with a total construction budget of nearly EUR 3 billion. With more than...
Four Energy Companies Prequalified to Bid for Horns Rev 3
COPENHAGEN - The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) announced on 9 May 2014 the decision to prequalify Statoil ASA , E.ON Wind Denmark AB, Vattenfall Wind Power A / S...
Environmental Benefits of Nonwoven Geotextiles and Crop Covers
19 May 2014 – Brussels, Belgium – EDANA, the international association serving the nonwovens and related industries, today launched the first two in a series infographics. These images are drawn from...
Australia: 7ICEG Opens Registration
The 7th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (7 ICEG) is coming together quickly. To be held 10 – 14 November 2014 in Melbourne, Australia, the event will bring together...
Royal Ten Cate Announces Exchange Ratio
12 May 2014 - Royal Ten Cate - Following the dividend announcement relating to the dividend for the 2013 financial year of 17 April 2014, Royal Ten Catehereby announces that the...
Geosynthetic Institute June Short Courses
The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) has opened registration for its next geosynthetics training sessions. To be held at the Folsom, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) headquarters of GSI, the following courses will be...
DEADLINES: Heap Leach Solutions 2014 Abstracts
Infomine held a very successful inaugural heap leach conference in Vancouver last in 2013, and now the organization returns with Heap Leach Solutions 2014 (www.heapleachsolutions.com). The event will be...
Schedule Released for IGS Honduras 2014 Conference
The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) has grown substantially in chapters, corporate members and international breadth in the past four years. There are now more than 40 chapters, and one...
GSE Environmental Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
On Sunday, GSE Environmental filed paperwork for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in North America. The news was first reported by Reuters. The voluntary petition was made in United States...
AUSTRALIA: Retaining and Hydraulic Structures Seminars
From May 13 – May 22, Geofabrics Australasia is sponsoring an educational seminar series on “Retaining & Hydraulic Structures.” The event will be held in four cities and include...
GEER Response to Washington Landslide
A team from the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association, supported by the National Science Foundation, is mobilizing to collect information on the effects of a landslide that occurred...
Strata Announces Geocell Production in India
Mumbai, Maharashtra - Ever since Strata Geosystems ( India ) Pvt. Ltd.'s establishment in India, it has striven to provide eco-friendly and economical geotechnical solutions to the Indian construction marketplace. Strata's relentless efforts...
Heap Leach Solutions 2014 Extends Abstracts Call
Infomine has announced that the abstracts submission window for Heap Leach Solutions 2014 (www.heapleachsolutions.com) has been extended to May 12. Heap Leach Solutions will be held 10 – 13...
