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Daniele Cazzuffi (CESI SpA – Milano, Italy and also IGS Past President) has been unanimously elected as Chairman of the European Committee for Standardization on Geosynthetics (CEN TC 189) for a period of three years, 2012–2014. The vote was held during January 2012 as postal ballot among all standardization bodies of the 27 countries belonging to CEN.
The CEN Technical Committee 189 was founded in 1989. Since then, all Chairmen have been from either Belgium or the Netherlands. The Committee is organized in six Working Groups and Dr. Cazzuffi was the convener of WG 3, especially devoted to the development of methods for mechanical tests.
The mandate of CEN TC 189 is to develop standardized test methods for the overall characterization of geosynthetics and mainly to elaborate the harmonized European standards for the various fields of geosynthetics applications (landfills, contaminated sites, dams and reservoirs, canals and waterways, tunnels and underground structures, road and railways infrastructures, landslide stabilization, drainage systems, erosion control). These harmonized European standards shall be accepted as national standards in all countries belonging to CEN.
The first European meeting with Dr. Cazzuffi as CEN TC 189 Chairman will be at UNI in Milano from 24 to 25 May 2012.
