The December 2010 issue of NAUE News is perhaps the company’s most ambitious to date, in terms of content range. The introductory article addresses the departure of long-time managing director Prof.-Ing. Dr. Georg Heerten, who is retiring from his primary day-to-day operations with NAUE. Dr. Heerten has been a luminary in the field of geosynthetics, spurring research, product development, technology transfer and education across a large range of materials and applications. His influence is certainly felt throughout the field.
Dr. Heerten is far from retiring from geosynthetics and engineering, however. He will still lecture on geosynthetics and geotechnics at RWTH University of Aachen, and he was recently elected chairman of the German Geotechnical Society (DGGT), a position which will keep him rather busy over the next four years.
Project stories in NAUE News 36 take readers around the world and throughout a large range of geosynthetics applications. These stories include:
- a look at countering the danger posed to a community by the sudden appearance of a sinkhole
- high-speed railway improvement
- foundation protection
- landfill sealing
- dam restoration
- and much more
The projects are set in Australia, Germany, Romania, Burkina Faso, and elsewhere.
The issue also includes an article on the importance of radial stiffness in geogrids and introduces the m3 series of products, such as NAUE Block.
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Chris Kelsey is the editor of Geosynthetica. He can be reached at chris@geosynthetica.net.
