EuroGeo6 abstract system now available

Organizers of the EuroGeo6 conference and trade show have announced the opening of abstract submissions, with a note that the deadline for submissions is Oct. 10, 2015.

The Sixth European Geosynthetics Congress—EuroGeo6—is scheduled for Sept. 25–28, 2016, in Istanbul, Turkey.

The proposed technical sessions for EuroGeo6 include: agricultural applications, coastal protection, direct and life-cycle cost savings, drainage and filtration, durability, embankments on soft soils, environmental benefits, geosynthetics as formwork, hydraulic applications, innovations and new developments, landfills, lightweight construction, mining, monitoring, pavements, physical and numerical models, polymeric and clay geosynthetic barriers, properties and testing, quality control and quality assurance, reinforced walls and slopes, roads and other transportation applications, seismic applications, sustainability, wastewater and freshwater storage.

The sixth quadrennial European geosynthetics conference is following a tradition including: EuroGeo1 (1996–Maastricht, Netherlands), EuroGeo2 (2000–Bologna, Italy), EuroGeo3 (2004–Munich, Germany), EuroGeo4 (2008—Edinburgh, Scotland), EuroGeo5 (2012–Valencia, Spain)