FGI Newsletter - Summer, 2020

FGI Offering LIVE Virtual Panel

Discussion Webinar

Thursday, July 30, 2020 at Noon CDT

Free to Industry Professionals & Students

1.0 PDH

This first webinar Panel Discussion will assemble five (5) industry leaders to answer questions about design, specifying, factory testing, fabrication, welding, packaging, shipping, installing, field leak location testing, and maintaining factory fabricated geomembranes and geosynthetics, e.g., geotextiles, for a range of applications. The panelists will also discuss different labor rates, production per day, quality control, testing, weather impacts, wind, wrinkles and performing leak location surveys, etc. for factory fabricated versus field fabricated geosynthetics. This should result in a lively discussion about current trends in geomembranes, fabrication, testing, and installation.

Panelists:

Doug Hilts, P.E. (Hilts Consulting Group)

Patrick Elliott (Raven Industries)

Ronald Frobel, P.E., (R.K. Frobel & Assoc)

Dan Rohe (EPI)

Duff Simbeck (Simbeck & Associates)

Moderator: Timothy Stark, Ph.D., P.E. (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

FGI Creates Video Podcast Series

In addition to the FGI’s Audio Podcast Series, the FGI has now created a series of Video Podcasts. The video podcasts are approximately 10-20 minutes long and demonstrate a technical aspect of the geosynthetics industry. For example, two video podcasts cover the FGI’s new Panel Weight Calculator and Pond Liner Calculator. The videos review the purpose and usefulness of these calculators, as well as a tutorial on how to use them. Another video podcast reviews a case history on a slope failure of a geomembrane composite liner system in a waste containment facility and features special guest, Doug Evans of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

If you have a topic for the FGI to address in an upcoming video or audio podcast, please contact Jen Miller .

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FGI Continues Popular Webinar Series With Exciting Array of Topics & Speakers

The FGI is continuing its exciting webinar series with a wide variety of topics and presenters. The webinars are free and each attendee will receive 1.0 PDH. All webinars, slides, and reference materials are posted on the FGI's website . The FGI also offers a free online PDH Program that provides 1.0 PDH credit for each webinar viewed from our library in its entirety. Each webinar is approximately one hour in length. Upcoming webinars include:

August 20, 2020 at 11 a.m. CDT - Yeager Airport Reinforced Slope Failure by Jim Collin & Ryan Berg - Register

September 17, 2020 at Noon CDT - Construction on Soft Foundation Soils by Kerry Rowe - Register

October 1, 2020 at 11 a.m. CDT - US EPA Reconsideration of Coal Combustion Residual Regulations by JR Register & Andy Bittner - Re gister

October 22, 2020 at Noon CDT - Geomembrane Wrinkles in Containment Applications by Tim Stark - Register

November 12, 2020 at 11 a.m CST - Geosynthetics in Mining Applications by Denys Parra - Register

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FGI Welcomes its Newest Members

Government/Regulatory Agency Membership:

Baltimore County, Department of Public Works
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Waste Management
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water
Ohio EPA, Division of Material and Waste Management
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Solid Waste Management

Installer Membership:

Genap BV

Associate Membership:

LDM
Re-Gen Enterprises

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