São Paulo, 30 de Setembro de 2013. A empresa Geo Soluções,  empresa especializada em produtos e serviços para obras de contenções e fundações especiais, estabeleceu uma joint venture com a empresa americana Strata Systems para prestação de serviços e comercialização de produtos especializados para o mercado de engenharia civil e geotécnico. Através desta Joint Venture, a Strata Systems, fabricante e distribuidora...

Cumming, GA, USA – (Oct. 1, 2013) Today, Strata Systems, Inc., a Glen Raven company and manufacturer and marketer of soil reinforcement products, announced its acquisition of 50% of the equity in Geo Solucões Ltda. of Brazil. With offices in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Geo Solucões Ltd. is a Brazilian geotechnical solutions company that designs and builds advanced...

Houston, TX – 30 September 2013 – GSE Environmental, a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered geosynthetic containment solutions for environmental protection and confinement applications, is excited to be featured on the program Viewpoints with Terry Bradshaw. The segment will air on 1 October 2013 on The Discovery Channel at 7:00 a.m. (ET & PT), 6:00 a.m. (CT) and 5:00 a.m....

How to mitigate frost heave and road degradation in cold climates? Tencate Geosynthetics writes on the beneficial impact of installing a woven reinforcing geosynthetic material--Mirafi® H2Ri--along an important stretch of road utilized by oil and resource extraction industries. ** The Dalton Highway is one of the most isolated roads in the United States. However, it serves a large amount of truck traffic because it...

In a 9-minute interview with Geosynthetica's Elizabeth Peggs, Maccaferri's Pietro Rimoldi discusses an extraordinary hybrid reinforced wall design utilized in Sikkim, India. The result is an 80m high structure at the Sikkim Airport--a critical access point in a region largely cutoff by geography. Further complicating the design is the seismic activity. Despite a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the area not...

TRI Environmental has announced the next dates and short courses for CQA Training Week. From 6 – 8 November 2013, events will be held at TRI’s Austin, Texas campus. Short courses include: “Construction QA/QA for Geosynthetic Installations” (November 6) “Construction QA/QC for Compacted Clay Liner & GCL Installation” (November 7). On November 8, interested participants will also be allowed to...

VANCOUVER - Two short courses will be offered on Sunday, September 22 prior to the Heap leach Solutions conference. These short courses are specifically designed to help participants get the most out of the conference, which provides a place where new ideas, technologies and practices can be discussed and shared between scientists and engineers. Each of the courses on offer is...

By Strata Systems - A high-pressure gas line running through a landfill site near Lewiston, New York presented a challenge to the landfill owner, Modern Landfill of Model City, New York. The original plan of moving the gas line to meet the capacity needs of the landfill was quite onerous, and warranted a fresh look. The traditional method of...

Denver, Colo. – The International Erosion Control Association Region One (IECA) staff celebrated the fifth annual World Parks Day by participating in a park clean‐up project at Greenway Park in Denver. IECA staff met with Denver Parks and Recreation project manager, Paul McLellan, to remove debris, cut out dead shrubs, mulch trees and clean up water run‐off damage from...

Le parole del Ministro dell’Ambiente Orlando, che con il suo messaggio ha inaugurato la settima edizione di RemTech Expo (Fiera di Ferrara, 18-20 Settembre), suonano al contempo come un monito e un impegno: "I temi che RemTech affronta, confermandosi un luogo essenziale di confronto, spunti, suggerimenti, proposte e risposte di assoluto rilievo, riguardano il passato e il futuro del nostro...