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Fabricated Geomembrane Institute highlights accomplishments and current activities

June 27, 2018

…Summer Internship Program: In 2017 FGI provided internships to six civil and environmental engineering students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to four different member companies. New samples to…

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DFI Educational Trust awards scholarships to engineering students

June 5, 2018

…The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust recently awarded several scholarships to civil engineering students focusing on geotechnical and/or environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DFI…

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Springtime failure of a cold-climate geotextile riprap slope

June 1, 2018

…manager at ECS Midwest in Chicago, Illinois. Stanley J. Vitton, Ph.D., P.E., is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University in Houghton….

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The TRB Standing Committee on Geosynthetics

June 1, 2018

…Sam Allen, vice president, Texas Research International Izzaldin Almohd, assistant professor, University of Petra, Jordan Imad Al-Qadi, professor of engineering and Illinois Center for Transportation director, University of Illinois at…

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O-I chooses steel reinforced geosynthetic drainage improvements for a Texas landfill

May 17, 2018

…stormwater efficiently with minimal leakage. With that in mind, the consulting engineer and contractor selected Contech DuroMaxx® steel reinforced polyethylene (SRPE) to address the project design requirements along with Contech…

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GMA and FGI to host part 2 of a webinar on the stability of geosynthetic lined slopes

May 15, 2018

…Ph.D., a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Stark is also the technical director of FGI. The webinar will be moderated by Andy…

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Maccaferri North America hires new area managers and a sales representative

April 3, 2018

…newly designated Midwest Area (Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Arkansas). Whitaker comes to Maccaferri with a successful career in geosynthetics and civil design, most recently as the principal engineer…

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GMA partners with FGI on free webinar program

April 1, 2018

…the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is also FGI’s technical director, presented the webinar, and GMA Executive Council member Andy Durham of Owens Corning moderated. On Feb. 27, 2018,…

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A next-gen basin liner solution for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

April 1, 2018

…the prefabricated RCG quickly at the site, with field seaming required only to connect large panels. Dr. Timothy D. Stark, professor of civil engineering at the University of Illinois at…

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U.S. Supreme Court leaves in place lower court ruling on Water Transfers Rule

February 28, 2018

…the landmark 1972 Clean Water Act. The Plaintiffs included the states of New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, and Washington, and the Canadian province of Manitoba. Several environmental groups,…

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