A very successful PGI workshop was held at The 2001 International Containment & Remediation Technology Conference and Exhibition in Orlando Florida on June 10 th. 29 people attended the daylong workshop, including 5 representatives from the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission. The US State Department provided two translators who performed simultaneous translation to Spanish for all of the PVC presentations.! ! !
The PVC Geomembrane Institute is developing a new presentation for engineering students and for brown bag meetings for engineering firms. Dubbed “The PVC Hour” by John Heap, the program will be a standardized technical training PowerPoint presentation that can be presented by any number of qualified PGI speakers throughout the US and Canada. The program will detail manufacturing, fabrication, installation and testing of PVC geomembranes for all types of containment applications. If you are interested in having this program presented to your class or organization, please contact the PGI via email at pgi@ce.uiuc.edu or by calling 217-333-3929.! ! !
Fred P. Rohe has been appointed interim Technical Director of the PVC
Geomembrane Institute. He can be reached at pgi@ce.uiuc.edu or
at 231-264-8993. The PGI Website has a new URL at www.pvcgeomembrane.com! ! !
Geoffrey Strack, a civil engineering student at the University of Illinois is working on the durability of PVC geomembrane for his Ph.D. dissertation. He is looking for PVC samples to be exhumed and tested. If you can help, contact Geoff at strackg@yahoo.com or call the PGI at 217-333-3929. Any assistance is appreciated. Coming Soon to a Classroom near you – THE PVC HOUR Did you know…? Did you know that the credit cards in your wallet are made of 30 mil thick rigid PVC?
