April 1, 2018
The following are highlights of the many initiatives of IGS-NA over the last few months. IGS-NA supports Geosynthetics 2019 The North American Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS-NA) is proud to support the Geosynthetics 2019 conference, which is organized by the Geosynthetic Materials Association, to be held Feb. 10–13, 2019, at the Marriott Marquis …
February 1, 2018
Former IGS-NA president (1997–99) and geosynthetics pioneer Dr. Richard J. Bathurst of the GeoEngineering Centre at Queen’s University and the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honor a scholar can achieve …
The North American Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS-NA) is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018. Formerly known as the North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS), our chapter of the IGS was established on Feb. 3, 1988. IGS-NA’s mission is to support the development of geosynthetic technologies through education, communication and networking.
IGS-NA established a webinar program in November 2017. This program is designed to address a wide range of technical topics and audiences. Some of the webinars will be instructional and aimed at advancing the use of geosynthetics by the engineering community at large. Other webinars will be aimed at member audiences addressing topics interesting to …
October 1, 2017
Since the Geotechnical Frontiers conference this past March in Orlando, Fla., the new board of directors at IGS North America (IGS-NA, or the North American Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society) has been working hard to provide its members, the geosynthetics community and the engineering community a greater awareness of what geosynthetic materials can provide …
June 1, 2017
A busy Geotechnical Frontiers conference for IGS–NA The International Geosynthetics Society–North American (IGS–NA) Chapter annual meeting was held on March 14, 2017, at Geotechnical Frontiers in Orlando, Fla. Among the key items discussed at the meeting were the appointment of the 2017–2019 board of directors, winners of the IGS–NA photo contest, and the 2017 Educate …
April 1, 2017
The mission of the North American Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS–NA) is to provide leadership in advancing geosynthetics education and research to attain their appropriate and widespread use as engineering materials. As the learned society for geosynthetics in North America, our members are engineers, educators, manufacturers, regulators, and researchers, collectively dedicated to creating …
IGA–NA has been an active participant in this geosynthetics training program for engineering professors. Many schools do not teach geosynthetics because their instructors may not have the knowledge, confidence, or materials to effectively teach it. Educate the Educators (EtE) provides specialized, hands-on training and lecture materials to equip professors to offer effective geosynthetics content at …