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Monitoring/mitigating geohazards is focus of new group
February 28th, 2022
GeoStabilizaton expands its capabilities, making monitoring/mitigating geohazards focus of new data-focused work group. Analyzing geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing information are some of the capabilities of GeoStabilizaton International’s new Geohazard Asset and Monitoring (GAMM) group. Photograph courtesy of GeoStabilization International GeoStabilization International of Commerce City, Colo.—a geohazard mitigation firm specializing in emergency landslide […]
GSI agriculture/aquaculture webinar upcoming
February 25th, 2022
GSI agriculture/aquaculture webinar on March 16, 2022, will focus on geosynthetics in farming and fish farming operations. A Raven Engineered Films geosynthetic agricultural silage cover. The upcoming GSI agriculture/aquaculture webinar will include such uses. Photograph courtesy of Raven Engineered Films The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) will sponsor a webinar, “Geosynthetics in Agriculture and Aquaculture,” on March […]
Free Geosynthetics Conference archive launches
February 25th, 2022
The conference’s organizers have made available 1,500 white papers and dozens of videos in the online, free Geosynthetics Conference archive. The free Geosynthetics Conference archive includes proceedings from conferences dating back to the IFAI-sponsored Second International Conference on Geotextiles, Aug. 1–6, 1982, in Las Vegas, Nev. The Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), the Geosynthetics Materials Association […]
Geotechnical materials testing lab opens in Georgia
February 24th, 2022
The geotechnical materials testing lab for Golder Associates Inc. in Norcross, Ga., will test geosynthetic, geotechnical, aggregate and concrete materials. The Golder Associates Inc. construction materials testing lab in Norcross, Ga., opened on Feb. 21, 2022. Photograph courtesy of Golder Associates Inc. A Golder Associates Inc. construction materials testing services laboratory destroyed by arson in […]
Geosynthetics for Alaska landfill closure
February 23rd, 2022
Solmax provides a combination of geosynthetics for Alaska landfill closure project with multiple geotechnical challenges. Installation of geosynthetics at the Homer Solid Waste Facility landfill in Alaska. Photograph courtesy of Solmax Kenai Peninsula Borough in southern Alaska needed to complete phase two of a landfill-closure project at its Homer (Alaska) Solid Waste Facility. This involved […]
Tentoma geotextile packaging machine for wider rolls
February 22nd, 2022
The new Tentoma geotextile packaging machine handles up to 29.5-foot (19-m) wide roll packaging and packages shorter rolls faster. Tentoma designed the new RoRo StretchPack XL Power machine for stretching wider geotextile tubes. Photograph courtesy of Tentoma A/S Tentoma A/S, headquartered in Broager, Denmark, released the RoRo StretchPack XL Power packaging machine that enables sealed […]
Geo conference proposal deadline is Feb. 28
February 21st, 2022
Submit your session proposals by the Geo conference proposal deadline of Feb. 28 to share your expertise at Geosynthetics Conference 2023. Downtown Kansas City, Mo., at dusk. Photograph by Doug Wertman. Creative Commons License Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Geosynthetics Conference 2023, to be held in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 5–8, 2023, is accepting […]
The history of geocells
February 18th, 2022
By Ashley Beyer, Content and Marketing Specialist, Presto Geosystems Presto Geosystems, which invented geocells in the late 1970s, expands on the history of geocells technology. Side-by-side cost/performance testing of polymer and aluminum geocells at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Miss., circa 1979. Photograph courtesy of Presto Geosystems Geocell technology has come […]
NSF International president and CEO Lawlor to retire; Sancha to take over
February 17th, 2022
NSF International president and CEO Kevan P. Lawlor will step down, making way for the Pedro Sancha era at the standards organization. Retiring NSF International president and CEO Kevan P. Lawlor NSF International of Ann Arbor, Mich., announced that president and CEO Kevan P. Lawlor will retire in 2022, and Pedro Sancha will become the next NSF International president and […]
Flood reconstruction with geosynthetics
February 16th, 2022
The use of geogrid-reinforced earth allows reconstruction of a flood-destroyed German bridge in record time. The Swistbach Bridge in Heimerzheim, Germany, was destroyed by floods in July 2021. Photograph courtesy of Heitkamp BauHolding GmbH With the increase in extreme weather events worldwide because of climate change, such as those in July 2021 in Germany (in […]