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• Enter your award-winning projects now

  May 3, 2013 | Ron Bygness
  Deadline for International Achievement Awards (IAA) is June 15.   Read more...

• History lessons

  April 1, 2013 | Ron Bygness
  Looking back at the history of IFAI, GMA, GFR, and more.  Read more...

• GMA’s Ramsey comments on ASCE’s ‘Report Card’

  March 21, 2013 | Boyd Ramsey
  The ASCE (American Society for Civil Engineers) has released its 2013 Report Card on America’s Infrastructure. Read more...

• Geosynthetic Materials Association member scholarship application

  February 7, 2013 | Ron Bygness
  This $1,000 scholarship award provides tuition expenses at an accredited college, university, or technical school. Read more...

• 30 years in print … Do you remember when?

  February 1, 2013 | Ron Bygness
  Amid the recent flurry of anniversary celebrations—IFAI’s 100th in 2012, GRI’s 25th in 2013—our proud little magazine, Geosynthetics, is also in line for some durability and reliability recognitions this year. Read more...

• December 2012 Geo-Watch-’13

  December 19, 2012
  Geosynthetics 2013 is co-locating with the Southwest Geotechnical Engineers Conference and features the Geosynthetic Research Institute’s GRI-25 Conference. Read more...

• Twin geosynthetic-reinforced soil bridges by Utah DOT

  December 7, 2012 | Federal Highway Administration Innovator Newsletter
  The Utah Department of Transportation will use geosynthetic-reinforced soil integrated bridge system technology when it builds twin bridges to carry Interstate 84 over a county road in the Salt Lake City metro area. Read more...
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  On the estimation of live loads in geosynthetic design

  November 15, 2012 | Bob Koerner
  In formulating a factor-of-safety value for a specific geosynthetic application, a design engineer is essentially calculating a ratio of resisting forces-to-driving forces. Read more...
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  Three predictions on LFG and the future of landfill management

  November 8, 2012 | Tom Bilgri
  I’ve been polishing my crystal ball and peering into the future recently, as well as looking over my shoulder, and I wanted to share three areas about which I think I can accurately predict the future of LFG (landfill gas). Read more...

• Mountains of trash

  October 1, 2012 | Ron Bygness
  About 200 miles south of the first United States sanitary landfill in Fresno, Calif., (1935) is truly a mountain of trash. Read more...