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Carlisle SynTec has just joined the Fabricated Geomembrane Institute as a Manufacturer Member. The point of contact for Carlisle SynTec is Scott Long and he can be reached at Scott.Long@syntec.carlisle.com or (800) 479-6832. We would like to extend a warm welcome to Carlisle SynTec and look forward to working with them in the future. The FGI now has twenty-seven (27) members pursuing the advancement of fabricated geomembranes in the marketplace. For a complete membership list, please visit the Current Members page.
FGI Tenth Teleconference Meeting was held on January 7th, 2010. The meeting minutes can be found here. Also, the 2009 Market Survey has been created and is currently underway.
Dear FGI Members:
Our proposal for a session titled “Floating Covers for Potable Water” was accepted for the ASCE Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference in Dallas, Texas on March 13-16, 2011 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel. I hope a number of FGI Members will submit an abstract because I think this is an excellent application for fabricated geomembranes. I am sending you the Call for Papers (see below) before it is widely distributed so your abstract will be one of the first considered.
This is a Call for Papers for the technical session titled:
Floating Covers for Potable Water
at the ASCE Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference in Dallas, Texas on March 13-16, 2011 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel.
In an effort to protect potable water from various environmental, community, and security risks, many entities and municipalities are covering their water reservoirs. This has created substantial innovation to cover these large and often oddly shaped water reservoirs. This creativity has lead to a number of different types of floating covers, construction techniques, and lining materials. This session will allow authors to present the latest advances in floating cover design, specification, installation, testing, performance, durability, and repair.
PLEASE submit your 200-300 word abstract and future submissions through the Geo-Frontiers 2011 website at:
http://www.geofrontiers11.com/Technical_Paper_Submission.cfm
The deadlines and schedule of events for this technical session are:
Abstracts due: 08 March 2010
Select Abstracts and Notify Authors: April 1, 2010
Receive Draft Papers for Review: June 1, 2010
Reviewed Papers Returned to Authors: August 1, 2010
Final Papers Due: September 1, 2010
Final Paper Acceptance Due: October 15, 2010
Please feel free to distribute this Call for Papers to anyone that you think might have an interest in the session. If you have any questions or need any additional information, please let me know. Thank you for your consideration and best regards.
CE News (www.cenews.com) published an article on the first FGI short course in Denver on page 14 of the December 2009 issue, which can be found here. The article states that the short course was well attended with 66 people and the course covered the “design, specification testing, manufacturing, fabrication, installation, inspection, and field testing of fabricated geomembranes in a variety of applications”. The course was held at the Denver Sheraton West on October 23, 2009. The article also describes the FGI and its mission and affiliation with the University of Illinois.
FGI Ninth Teleconference Meeting was held on December 4, 2009. The meeting minutes can be found here.
During a recent trip to Cleveland, Tim Stark visited the offices of American Environmental Group, Ltd. (AEGL) in Richfield, Ohio near Cleveland. Tim met with Chris Eichelberger of AEGL on Monday, November 23, 2009 to discuss current and future FGI activities. In particular, research and technology transfer on the excellent puncture resistance of fabricated geomembranes, topics and logistics for the next FGI short course, and increasing the opportunities for various fabricated geomembranes, e.g., reinforced polypropylene, PVC, EPDM, Ethylene Interpolymer Allow (EIA), etc., were discussed Tim also met some of the geosynthetics staff at AEGL and toured the offices.
Tim hopes to visit the facility of all FGI members in the near future to better understand each member’s business and how the FGI can provide additional benefit to them. The FGI is an exciting advancement in the geomembrane industry and allows the Institute to focus on all geomembranes.
During a trip through the Midwest, Ray Peebles, Product and Market Manager for the Cooley Group, stopped in Urbana to visit the FGI at the University of Illinois (see attached photograph). During the visit, Tim Stark introduced Ray to Melissa Berena, the FGI Graduate Student, and discussed the FGI website and subgrade preparation guideline, both of which Melissa is working on. Tim gave Ray a tour of the geosynthetics lab and the Crane Bay area where large scale structures and construction materials projects are being conducted. During the visit Ray and Tim discussed current and future FGI activities to promote the use of fabricated geomembranes, ways to improve the FGI short course, and future research activities on fabricated geomembrane interface strengths.
Tim welcomes all FGI members to visit the University of Illinois which is located about 130 miles south of Chicago along I-57. If desired, Tim can arrange for the visitor to give a presentation to and meet with Civil Engineering students. Tim hopes to visit the facilities of all FGI members in the near future to better understand each member’s business and how the FGI can provide additional benefit to them but also encourages them to visit the University of Illinois. The FGI is an exciting advancement in the geomembrane industry that allows focus on all geomembranes that can be factory fabricated.
FGI Eighth Teleconference Meeting was held on November 6, 2009. The meeting minutes can be found here.
ShadowLake Estates is a 96-acre development nestled in the foothills of Indio, CA dedicated to the homebuyer with a flair for water sports. This challenging project included the desert’s first, manmade, residential private water-ski lake community. Watersaver Company Inc. fabricated 2,100,000 square feet of 30-mil PVC and shipped over 250,000 square yards of geotextile for the ShadowLake Estates project. Click here to read an interesting article about the many challenges the project team faced.
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