Landfill geosynthetics for abandoned Italian dump
Landfill geosynthetics transform the abandoned dump near Cava De’Tirreni, Italy, into a green oasis in the heart of the Metelliana Valley.
International Geosynthetics Society launches Young Member Competition for 12th ICG
Colosseum Amphitheater in Rome, Italy. Photograph courtesy Ank Kumar. Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Young Member Committee has set in motion the prestigious Young Member Competition for the 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics (ICG), Sept. 17–21, 2023, in Rome, Italy. Ten of the world’s best young researchers [...]
ANDRITZ to build new production line for geotextiles for Manifattura Fontana/Sioen
On March 1, 2018, ANDRITZ Group of Graz, Austria, announced it will build a neXline needlepunch eXcelle line for the production of geotextiles for Manifattura Fontana of Valstagna, Italy, part of the Belgian technical textile company Sioen Industries. Start-up of the line is scheduled for October 2018. The scope of supply includes all of the [...]
Registration open for 2018 DFI-EFFC conference in Rome
Registration opened on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, for the 2018 Deep Foundations Institute- European Federation of Foundation Contractors (DFI-EFFC) International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, June 5–8, 2018. The conference explores the challenges of upcoming urban infrastructure megaprojects and highlights modern technologies and techniques available to overcome [...]
Walking on water
Bulgarian Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Moroccan Jeanne-Claude create evanescent works of art on an international stage—fora limited time. “I am an artist, and I have to have courage,” Christo is quoted as saying.“I think it takes much greater courage tocreate things to be gone than to create things that will remain.” Photo: ©André Grossmann [...]
