New manager at Cooley

April 1, 2008  |  News

The Cooley Group has named Don Nelligan regional sales manager for the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. He will be responsible for direct and distributor sales for all Cooley products throughout those territories. The four divisions of the Cooley Group are Cooley Building Products, Coo…
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Promotions at Weldmaster

April 1, 2008  |  News

Miller Weldmaster Corp., Navarre, Ohio, has promoted Jeffrey N. Dimos and Jeffrey P. Sponseller to executive vice president positions. Dimos will continue to serve as the CFO for the company as well as responsibilities for manufacturing/engineering, finance and information technology teams. Sponsell…
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Hayward Baker opens new office in Twin Cities

April 1, 2008  |  News

Hayward Baker Inc. geotechnical contractor has opened a new sales, project management, and engineering services office in the Twin Cities. The office is located in Bloomington, near the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the Mall of America. According to HB, the opening of the Twin Citie…
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GRI Standards

April 1, 2008  |  News, Q&A: GMA Techline

From the GMA Techline Subject: GRI Standards — I am seeing references to GRI Standards GM 10, GM 14, and GM 18 in a project spec for a facility that will be under construction soon. There are other references too, of course, but these I’ve listed are not current, according to your Web si…
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Slack calculations

April 1, 2008  |  News, Q&A: GMA Techline

From the GMA Techline Subject: Slack calculations — Do you have a reference that discusses the impact of environmental conditions and the procedures for determining “slack” into an HDPE liner at the time of installation? (Rod, California) Reply: The subject of calculating slack in …
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Comment on Part 1 of SRW series

February 1, 2008  |  News

I am very happy to see the efforts to educate owners using SRWs. The article in Geosynthetics (“Challenges in building SRWs … “ October/November 2007) is very good. I like the emphasis on quality control and defining responsibility of sub-surface improvements. It is a good checkli…
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Additional comment on Part 1 of SRW series

February 1, 2008  |  News

I just finished reading the article (“Challenges in building SRWs … “) published in Geosynthetics magazine. I think your conclusion that the owner should take control of the design is right on the money and should be part of the bid package. I also believe that a generic, performa…
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RE: “The Bridge” & “Butterflies”

February 1, 2008  |  News

We can only thank God after narrowly surviving such incidents (“The Bridge” October/November 2007). Our life is nothing but a flame of candle burning against winds. It was a very touching way that you expressed the mishap in your editorial. Good to see the poetic side of a technical pers…
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Geosynthetics receives two awards

February 1, 2008  |  News

Geosynthetics has received two more magazine awards, both announced late last year. The bimonthly magazine formerly known as GFR won the first-place Gold Award in Association Trends 2007 All-Media Contest in the Scholarly/Technical/Scientific category, announced in December. Geosynthetics also was c…
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Rep. Heath Shuler receives award from GMA

February 1, 2008  |  News

The Geosynthetic Materials Association presented the first Friend of GMA Award to U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) during the GMA Capitol Hill Education Forum Oct. 23, 2007, in Washington, D.C. After Shuler was introduced by Richard Goodrum of North Carolina-based Colbond Inc., the award was presente…
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