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Webinar – Designing Resilient and Cost-Effective Stormwater Channels – Sept. 24
August 31st, 2024
Presto Geosystems presents the webinar - Designing Resilient and Cost-Effective Stormwater Channels Using the GEOWEB® Confinement System - on September 24. 2024 at 11 a.m. CDT. The presenter is Sam Justice, P.E., a 1.0 PDH credit is available, and you can register here. The GEOWEB® Channel Protection System provides a wide variety of economical and flexible […]
DFI Educational Trust awards Women in Deep Foundations Professional Development Grants
August 30th, 2024
DFI Educational Trust has awarded five Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Professional Development Grants of $1,750 each to women working in the deep foundations industry. The recipients are invited to attend the DFI 49th Annual Conference on Deep Foundation in Aurora, Colo., October 7–10, 2024. The grant includes complimentary conference registration and covers related expenses […]
AASHTO issues new interlocking pavement guide
August 29th, 2024
Image courtesy of AASHTO. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) recently released a brand new publication: “AASHTO Guide for Interlocking Pavements, 1st Edition.” This guide – intended as a resource for both state departments of transportation and municipal public works departments – represents a synthesis of the research and decades of […]
Cemetery expansion with CRB retaining walls in Spain
August 28th, 2024
Contributed by Terraforce In the reclamation of a plot previously filled with waste, retaining walls were necessary to create new horizontal platforms and garden areas for the La Almudena Cemetery in Madrid, Spain. In total, 10,500 Terraforce L12 blocks were installed with geogrids for every second row of blocks at the cemetery, resulting in visually […]
Southeastern state DOT projects win regional awards
August 27th, 2024
Ten state department of transportation projects in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia took home top prizes in the southeastern or SASHTO region of the 2024 America’s Transportation Awards competition. Selected from 25 projects nominated by eight state DOTs in the SASHTO region, they are among 106 nominations submitted by 39 state DOTs as […]
Using GEOWEB Geocells in landfill capping applications
August 26th, 2024
Contributed by Presto Geosystems Written by Cory Schneider When contaminated material such as landfill waste or contaminated soil is encountered, there are typically two options available: removal of the material or placing a “cap” over it. In most cases, capping is the easier and more cost-effective of the two options. Caps serve to isolate the […]
Clean-up of Stover Lake includes sediment removal and innovative use of geotextile bags
August 26th, 2024
A man-made lake near Newton Abbot in Devon, England, dating to the Georgian Period, is the site of major habitat improvement works that will help to rejuvenate the lake and its surrounding area, returning it to its former glory and benefiting a host of wildlife. Stover Lake, a ten-acre freshwater lake within Stover Country Park, […]
Webinar – Building Resilient Oil & Gas Roads and Pads – Sept. 10
August 24th, 2024
Presto Geosystems presents the webinar – Building Resilient Oil & Gas Roads and Pads – on September 10, 2024 at 11 a.m. CDT. The presenter is Bryan Wedin, P.E., chief engineer, you can earn a 1.0 PDH credit, and you can register here. When unpaved roads, drill pads, and work platforms are constructed over weak […]
Boardman becomes first woman to serve as WisDOT secretary
August 23rd, 2024
Kristina Boardman Gov. Tony Evers has announced that Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Secretary Craig Thompson will be leaving the Evers Administration, effective Sept. 11, 2024, to take a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Evers is appointing Kristina Boardman to serve as WisDOT secretary, who will become the first woman to serve as secretary […]
Discussion – Accelerating U.S. Energy Infrastructure: The Urgency of Permitting Reform – Sept. 11
August 22nd, 2024
A discussion with members of the U.S. House of Representatives will be held at the Bipartisan Policy Center on Wednesday, September 11, at 4:00 p.m. Titled “Accelerating U.S. Energy Infrastructure: The Urgency of Permitting Reform,” this discussion is open to the public. Distinguished speakers include: Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) | Vice Chair, Conservative Climate Caucus; Chair, […]