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Trends in the geotextiles industry
October 13th, 2025
A version of this article originally appeared in Geosynthetics 2025 Trends & Innovations. AGRU’s latest IDSs have effectively replaced earlier, more expensive soil/aggregate drainage systems by offering better shear strength and drainage performance along with lower costs, material requirements, and installation times. Photo courtesy of AGRU. Continued growth, multiple company mergers and some product innovation […]
Geosynthetic Reinforcement: A Sustainable and Economic Solution for Texas State Highway 21, Part 2
June 26th, 2025
All photos courtesy of HUESKER Inc. See Part 1 here. SH21 Rehabilitation in Bastrop County, Texas (Summer 2022): With such proven confidence in the geosynthetic-reinforced asphalt overlay design, TxDOT considered rehabilitation of another stretch of SH21 roadway in Bastrop County. Specifically, the rehabilitation of SH21 roadway in Bastrop County comprised of portions of the roadway […]
Geosynthetic Reinforcement: A Sustainable and Economic Solution for Texas State Highway 21, Part 1
June 2nd, 2025
All photos courtesy of HUESKER Inc. The Texas State Highway 21 (SH21) spans through 12 different counties between San Marcos, Texas, on the west and the Texas-Louisiana border on the east, measuring approximately 500 km (310 miles). Most of this roadway has been constructed over an expansive subgrade soil with very high swell-shrink potential. The […]
HUESKER geogrids used to create waste-free waterfront barrier
April 25th, 2024
Guanabara Bay is one of the most important coastal regions right on the Sugarloaf Mountain – a densely populated area where the population of Rio de Janeiro, which tends to have lower incomes, live. Among them are many residents who depend on fishing for their livelihood. This is an increasingly difficult undertaking, as mountains of […]
Premier Product Showcase 2024
February 1st, 2024
Here is your first look at some of the new products and services that will be available from companies in 2024. Information for this special section was provided by companies who submitted materials to us before the publication deadline. All photographs are courtesy of the company listing the product/service. Geotechnical Frontiers is coming back in […]
HUESKER team receives awards
January 5th, 2024
The HUESKER team received three awards at the 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics (ICG) in Rome. The company received two awards in the Case Study category and one in the Product Development category. The awards were presented by the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), a global community of 4,000 members from all over the world dedicated to […]
Road link fixed with geosynthetics
October 1st, 2023
Repairs to a crucial roadway using aggregates made from recycled glass and polymeric geosynthetic reinforcements have allowed commuters to get back on the road sooner than expected. An elevated section of Interstate 95 that passes through northeast Philadelphia, Pa., collapsed on June 11 after a fuel tanker crashed onto the road below killing its driver. […]
Embankment reinforcement using 1750 kN/m strength geogrids
June 1st, 2023
Figure 1 Installation of the high-strength, high-modulus geogrid. In 2015, a variant road was built to relieve urban traffic in the southeastern section of federal road BR 101, more precisely in Florianopolis, which is the capital city of Santa Catarina, Brazil. With a length of 4,828 km (3,000 miles), BR-101 is a major Brazilian highway […]
HUESKER introduces high-quality geogrids manufactured from 100% recycled PET
May 24th, 2023
With ecoLine, HUESKER is the first geosynthetic manufacturer in the world to offer high-quality reinforcement solutions made from recycled raw material, making a fundamental contribution to resource-conserving and sustainable construction with geosynthetics. The recycled material is obtained from disposed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and is an engineered equivalent alternative to virgin PET yarn. In addition to […]
Geosynthetics Conference 2023 short course lineup announced
April 1st, 2022
Jie Han, the Glenn L. Parker Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Kansas, delivers the Dr. Robert M. Koerner Lecture at GeoNashville in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 4, 2021. Photograph courtesy of Mark Skalny/Mark Skalny Photography The Geosynthetics Conference 2023, Feb. 5–8, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo., will host six half-day short courses on […]