Containment

Despite politicians north and south of the border pledging to continue talks on Buy America provisions, protectionism is affecting the geosynthetics trade between Canada and the Untied States. Fredericton, New Brunswick's Geomembrane Technologies, which produces many floating covers, for example, has had to break relationships with Canadian firms in order to establish distributors in the United States so that the Buy America law does not remove Geomembrane Technologies from many of its regular customers and markets. Learn more here.;

When Brawler Industries closed its four locations in the United States, its assets were bought up by various geosynthetics entities. The one location we hadn’t heard about was what...

The former GAF shingle factory steadily expanded on Erie, Pennsylvania's bayfront. As it grew, workers dumped construction debris, asbestos, tar, shingle trimmings and other industrial waste into the water and erected new buildings on the fill. Now, to remediate and redevelop the 12.5-acre site, significant containment will be needed. Two-thirds of the site will most likely require the installation of a two-foot-thick cover layer. Learn more here.;

Advances in energy conversion, architecture, geotextile design and sensor technologies are leading material design Rachael Wingfield into urban gardening. Her "Metabolic Media" is an attempt to synthesize what has been discovered in other fields and material classes to create technologies that will enable more urban farming. Learn more here.;

Writing for the UK-based Rail Engineer, Douglas Ayres recalls his time in the Western Region’s New Works Laboratory. His history includes many notes on firsts in the use of geosynthetics in track construction: geotextile, geomembranes and geogrids. Learn more here.;

GeoU 2022 combines expert geosynthetics instruction with exceptional networking. This in-person engineering professional development event will take place 5 - 8 April 2022 at the Sonesta Bee Cave Austin...

Layfield has commissioned the world's largest combined geotextile sewing and geomembrane welding production line. With this line, dubbed the GeoFab 5X, Layfield has significantly scaled up its plant conversion capabilities...

Geosynthetica organized a geomembrane welding quality workshop in São Paulo, Brazil on April 18 and 19. Our Brazil industry editor Bruno Pedroni attended and reports that more than 30...

Maccaferri's professional development webinars have built a steady, strong following and addressed topics such as geotextiles and geogrids, MSE wall design and installation, gabions, rockfall protection, and embankment construction. These sessions run roughly 90 min, include expert presenters, provide a non-credit 0.15 CEU certificate, technical document downloads, and ample time for direct Q&A between the listening audience and the presenters. In November, the company is presenting two new sessions, both of which are free to participants. Learn more.

From the arrival of the Romans to the Saxons and Normans clashing upon the shore, and from the Spanish Armada to Napolean and two World Wars, England has a...

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (Jan. 13, 2015) — Profile Products is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael D. Robeson, PE, CPESC, CPSWQ, received his doctoral degree in Hydraulics from Colorado...

Following the successful launch of the International Tunnelling Awards in 2010, New Civil Engineer in partnership with sister title, Ground Engineering, is now calling for entries for the 2011 awards which will this year take the exciting global programme to Hong Kong (30 November 2011). The closing date for entries is the 5 August 2011. Learn more. Learn more here.;

The Solid Waste Association of North America's (SWANA's) Applied Research Foundation (ARF) has just released a revised report, called "The Long-Term Environmental Risks of Subtitle D Landfills." The report summarizes what is known about the actual long-term environmental risks associated with municipal solid waste landfills and introduces long-term care alternatives that can be used to manage and minimize these risks. SWANA will distribute this report to Federal, State and Provincial regulatory agencies in order to initiate a dialogue on the regulatory changes needed to improve landfill operation during the post-closure period.

Tensar International has added the synthetic drainage layer product RoaDrain™ to its roadway stabilization solutions portfolio. The sales and marketing rights in the Americas are now exlcusive to Tensar. The product is designed for high-performance drainage below roadways, rail trackbed and other paved areas. Installed in subgrades, it serves to reduce subgrade degradation and, thus, increase pavement service life. Read more in the release.

The Shenandoah Valley-Herald has published a piece on the importance of best management practices (BMPs) in agriculture. Though the article is unfortunately vague about types of BMPs, the erosion control and animal waste containment issues connected to them are important. The state of Virginia provided $12 million for ag BMP support last year. Learn more here.;

In 2015, there was little time for rest. Solmax launched four new products and filed two patents. We summarize some of the biggest developments here. These highlights...

The Wild Rose Fish Hatchery supplies more than 50 tons of fish to Wisconsin and the general Lake Michigan region. The century-old site had been in need of modernization to keep up with demands. New facilities (coldwater and warmwater) have been constructed over the past five years, and outdoor ponds have been lined with Firestone's PondGard pond liners for optimal resource conservation. Read the case study from Hatchery International. Learn more here.;

By Fumio Tatsuoka - The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) will grant IGS Awards in 2014 to individuals or groups of individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development...

The Global Waste Management Symposium (GWMS) is an international forum for the peer-reviewed presentation of both applied and fundamental research and case studies on solid waste management, policy, and regulation and includes networking opportunities for technical interaction and discussion among all participants. The GWMS is a biennial event that was launched in 2008 and attended by over 500 participants from 26 countries. GWMS 2010 will be held 3-6 October 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. Read more.

During the GeoAmericas 2016 conference in Miami (April 10 – 13), GSE Environmental's Boyd Ramsey was honored by the International Geosynthetics Society North American Chapter (IGS North America) for...

The newly constructed Arkun Dam hydropower facility on the Çoruh River (Turkey) would have been considerably more expensive if conventional concrete walls were used along the edges of the power station. NAUE Geosynthetics profiles the project and the reinforced earth option that was selected and which saved 40% on the cost for this portion of the project.

Royal Ten Cate announces that the number of dividend rights that grant entitlement to 1 new share has been fixed at 33 dividend rights of an ordinary share with a par value of EUR 2.50. With reference to the press release dated 9 April 2009 in relation to the payment of dividend for the financial year 2008, Royal Ten Cate announces that with regard to the stock dividend and the optional dividend the number of dividend rights that grant entitlement to 1 new share has been fixed at 33 dividend rights of an ordinary share with a par value of EUR 2.50.

In 2011, Madison County, New York became one of only a few locations in the world to bring online an innovative, solar energy-generating exposed geomembrane cap on a landfill cell. The site utilizes a Spectro PowerCap™ from Carlisle Energy Services, Inc. (CES) with a 20-30 year long-term interim cover design. A new video on YouTube (see above) showcases Madison County's investment in (and savings from) greener engineering strategies, such as installing a "solar landfill."

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in the United Kingdom has awarded TenCate Geosynthetics for the article "Modelling the geotextile tube dewatering process" in Geosynthetics International Magazine. This publication...

By John D. Herrmann, Bruce A. Lacina, P.E., and Stephan M. Gale, P.E. – In-place closure of coal combustion residual surface impoundments presents numerous challenges. Common methods of capping...