News and Articles
ACIGS Bringing IGS Educate the Educators to Australia
The International Geosynthetics Society’s Educate the Educators program has had a substantial and beneficial impact on college-level geotechnical and civil engineering programs. EtE workshops provide high-caliber professional development and resources for professors and instructors to incorporate geosynthetics into their curricula. The endeavor is ...
Phil McGoldrick on Value Engineered Systems and Tripling Production
Geosynthetica second season of the GeoTalk pocast series has begun! Editor-in-Chief Chris Kelsey sits down wit...
Kerry Rowe Mercer Lecture Schedule Announced
Dr. Kerry Rowe has been selected to deliver the 2019-2020 Mercer Lecture. The biennial lecture series honors t...
Geofabrics Earns Australian Export Award for Environmental Solutions
Congratulations are due to Geofabrics, which has earned a 2018 AusTrade Australian Export Award for Environmen...
GAP 2019 Abstracts Call: FHWA, FAA, FRA, USACE, and You
The inaugural Geo-Structural Aspects of Pavements, Airfields, and Railways Conference (GAP 2019) will be held ...
Podcasts
Phil McGoldrick on Value Engineered Systems and Tripling Production
Geosynthetica second season of the GeoTalk pocast series has begun! Editor-in-Chief Chris Kelsey sits down with globe-trotting industry veteran Phil McGoldrick. With Strata Geosystems, he has been a key piece of the company’s on-going expansion in in...
PODCAST: Disturbed Land Reclamation with...
In this episode of GeoTalk, we check in with Tom Williams, a 40-year veteran of disturbed land reclamation wor...
PODCAST: The Rise of ClosureTurf® in Fin...
Landfill engineering has advanced significantly over the past 35 years. Geosynthetic lining, capping, and fina...
PODCAST: The Coming Wave of Biogeotechni...
Biogeotechnical engineering is adding enzymes, microbes, and much more to the engineer’s toolbox Geosynt...
PODCAST: The Push towards Reinvention in...
Many infrastructure applications rely upon geosynthetic barriers. Over time, we’ve seen the specification of 4...
Featured Events
ELL Seminar Series – The Dipole Method (Webinar)
When: April 24, 2018 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Where: Online Webinar The ELL Seminar Series continues! The International Geosynthetics Society North America chapter’s next webinar offering is April 24, when Abigail Gilson, M.S., P.E...
GeoMEast 2018 International Congress and...
When: November 24, 2018 – November 28, 2018 all-day Where: MENA House Hotel, Kafr Nassar, A...
Construction QA/QC of Compacted Clay Lin...
When: May 10, 2018 all-day Where: TRI Environmental, 9063 FM2244, Austin, TX 78733, USA ...
Construction QA/QC for Geosynthetic Inst...
When: May 9, 2018 all-day Where: TRI Environmental, 9063 FM2244, Austin, TX 78733, USA ...
Slope Stability of Containment Systems &...
When: May 7, 2018 – May 8, 2018 all-day Where: TRI Environmental, 9063 FM2244, Austin, TX 7...