July 2018 Vol. 1

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Concrete Canvas Patent Success As Preliminary Injunction Against Eurobent/tiltex™ Upheld By Appeal Court (Breaking News)
https://cloud.excelplas.com/index.php/s/zY7D2b7zZ4JRbzc

Interview with Tom Rose Founder of Layfield –  Layfield’s 40th Anniversary Corporate Video (GNA Feature)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5m0aHaQg0

Flood Protection with Geosynthetic TrapBag® (New Product)
TrapBag® is quick deploy, self-erecting, cellular geosynthetic barrier bag capable of completely replacing sandbags for all natural or man-made disaster defense needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITiQTaDBsZg

Retirement of Chris Brockliss – Managing Director of Geofabrics NZ
https://www.geofabrics.co/news/retirement-of-chris-brockliss

Concerns Over the use of Geomembrane Liners as an Engineering Control for the Long-Term Storage of Oil and Gas Wastes
https://cese.utulsa.edu/concerns-use-geomembrane-liners-engineering-control-long-term-storage-oil-gas-wastes/

Golder Seeking Civil Engineer for Geosynthetic material design, Waste/landfill design projects, Dam designs for Cairns (Employment)
https://www.seek.com.au/job/36580603

Golder Seeking CAD Drafter for Geosynthetic material design, Waste/landfill design projects, Dam designs for Cairns (Employment)
https://www.seek.com.au/job/36581614

TenCate Geotube Exhibition at Mine Water Solutions 2018 Attracts Attention
http://2018minewatersolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Mine-Water-Floorplan-with-exhibitors-FINAL.pdf

Beach Erosion Control with Geotube Sediment Caps
http://www.sesi.org/beach-erosion-control-with-applications-for-sediment-caps/

Proposed Reef Rebuilding Methodology Using Geo Bags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-TQbDXQ6KQ

More than $880,000 has been granted by the Nebraska Environmental Trust <http://www.environmentaltrust.org/> in 2018 to engineering faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Reducing gas emissions from landfills through use of an interim cover that includes co-extruded polymeric geomembranes.
Jongwan Eun <https://engineering.unl.edu/civil/faculty/jongwan-eun/>, assistant professor of civil engineering, is working on this project. More Information: [email protected]

Shahrokh Bagli (Chief Technology Officer, Strata Geosystems) announces “We have rehabilitated the roads and highways of Tripura in 15 days using Geo Synthetic Textiles”  
https://twitter.com/technotex2018/status/1012269206077779970

Case Study: NovaLiner 12 LATERAL REHABILITATION, EASTERN IRRIGATION DISTRICT, ALBERTA, CANADA
https://ipgblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/case-study-novaliner-12.html

Case Study: NovaLiner 24 LINER FOR EAGLE FORD FRESHWATER FRAC POND, TILDEN, TEXAS
https://ipgblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/case-study-novaliner-24_8.html

Case Study: ArmorLiner 24 LINER FOR NEW EARTH SOILS & COMPOST, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
https://ipgblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/case-study-armorliner24.html

Supplementary Submission on Ash Dam Rehabilitation (Declassified)
https://www.envirojustice.org.au/supplementary-submission-on-ash-dam-rehabilitation/

TetraTech Seeking Quality Control Technician – Geosynthetic Liners
https://tetratech.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=170481

Monitoring the Performance of Louisiana’s First Geosynthetic Reinforced Bridge
https://geosyntheticsmagazine.com/2018/06/01/monitoring-the-performance-of-louisianas-first-grs-ibs-bridge/

Measurement of shear strength and interface parameters by multi-stage large-scale direct/interface shear and pull-out tests
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6501/aacb8a


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