CSUF student engineers repeat as ‘geo-wall’ champs

March 23, 2015  |  News

Annual competition held last week in San Antonio Cal State Fullerton student engineers captured the first place Geo-Challenge trophy in the national “geo-wall” competition March 17-18 in San Antonio, Texas. The team of four Titans finished ahead of the University of Texas at Arlington (second) a…
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IECA names Zech 2015 presenter of the year

March 20, 2015  |  News

Auburn professor spoke at EC15 show in Portland, Ore. The Denver-based International Erosion Control Association (IECA) announced in a March 18 press release that its Environmental Connection (EC) 2015 Presenter of the Year is Wesley C. Zech, Ph.D., LEED AP, for his presentation “Evaluation of inl…
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ASTM honors Craig Benson with Johnson Award

March 19, 2015  |  News

UW prof praised for work on D18 (soil and rock) and D35 (geosynthetics) ASTM announced in a March 19 press release that Craig Benson, Ph.D. and engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the recipient of the A. Ivan Johnson Outstanding Achievement Award for his contributions to…
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Raven featured in S.D. profile

March 17, 2015  |  News

Geomembrane manufacturer cited for workforce development Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Raven Industries Inc. is one of several South Dakota companies currently featured in a state-wide profile in the March 2015 issue of Delta Airlines’ in-flight magazine, Sky. The 22-page special section concentrates pr…
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GeoAmericas issues call for abstracts

March 16, 2015  |  News

Deadline is March 30 for 2016 event. The GeoAmericas 2016 conference’s call for abstracts deadline is March 30. The 3rd Pan-American conference on geosynthetics will be in Miami Beach, Fla., April 10-13, 2016. Previous GeoAmericas events were in Cancún, Mexico (2008) and Lima, Peru (2012). Abstra…
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W.Va. landslide at Yeager Airport

March 16, 2015  |  News

Church, houses destroyed; flooding, evacuations followed. Keystone Apostolic Church and three houses near Charleston, W.Va., were destroyed by a landslide last Thursday. The structures were located at the base of a man-made 242-foot-high reinforced hill that was constructed in 2007 to make room for …
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GRS: Innovative bridge building

March 12, 2015  |  News

Using geosynthetic-reinforced soil in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania’s Act 89 is a forward-looking five-year transportation funding plan that pledges more than $2 billion to invest in the state’s transportation infrastructure. A major component of the plan is improvement and reconstruction of the sta…
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Environmental Connection call for submissions

March 11, 2015  |  News

EC16 Feb. 16-19 in San Antonio Following on the heels of its recently completed 2015 conference and exhibition, the Denver-based International Erosion Control Association (IECA) issued a press release this week calling for submissions for its Environmental Connection 2016 (EC16). EC15 was held last …
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GSI fellowships for graduate students

March 5, 2015  |  News

Request-for-proposals due by June 12 The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) has announced a worldwide call for requests-for-proposals (RFPs) focusing on innovative geosynthetics research and development projects. There are numerous awards given, each for $5,000. (Note that this is a change from previous y…
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IECA cites Environmental Excellence Award winners

March 4, 2015  |  News

Sustained Contributor, Young Professional, Contractor, and Organization of the Year At its annual Environmental Connection conference last month in Portland, Ore., the International Erosion Control Association (IECA) named its 2014 Environmental Excellence Award winners: Jason (J.P.) P. Johns-Sustai…
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