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  • Annual Meeting and Webinar on 5th of February 2026

    How the use of Geosynthetics has evolved in Nordic countries? Arnstein Watn has been involved already several decades in Geosynthetics and he has collected the history into the Keynote lecture presented in EuroGeo8 conference in Lille 2025. This lecture Geosynthetics in the Northern countries: geotechnical and environmental challenges   will be represented in the IGS Nordic webinar in March 2026.

    In addition to the keynote lecture, the webinar consists of two other presentations:

    Arnstein Watn: New NorGeoSpec classification for filter geotextiles in drainage (new version of NorGeoSpec Guidelines is available on the website https://www.norgeospec.org/)

    Saara Perikangas: Quantities of applied geosynthetics in Finland – results of questionnaire

    Join the webinar on 5th of February starting at 13 am CET!

    Webinar is free and open for all! Register through this LINK.

    The Annual Meeting of IGS Nordic is organised straight after the webinar, about 15 am ECT.

  • Annual Meeting and Webinar on 6th of March 2025

    How to choose the proper Geosynthetic product into exceptional environmental conditions, such as high or low pH? Or how you can increase the Circular Economy and decrease the cost by use of local, low quality soils?

    Join the webinar on 6th of March starting at 9 am CET and learn about possibilities.

    The webinar consists of two presentations:

    • Catrin Tarnowski, Solmax: Environmental Conditions to be Considered in Design and Choice of Geosynthetics
    • Viktor Poberezhnyi, Huesker: Landslide Embankment with Geosynthetics on Project E10 Hålogalandsvegen, by using in-situ infill (Moraine)

    Webinar is free and open for all! Register through this LINK.

    The Annual Meeting of IGS Nordic is organised straight after the webinar, about 10 am ECT.

  • Save the date: Invitation to the Winter Webinar and Annual General Meeting

    IGS Nordic Chapter is organizing a Winter Webinar on 19.1.2023 focusing on Microplastics and Sustainability. John Kraus and Nathalie Touze will give 30 min presentations based on their lectures on Italia Bologna October 2022.

    The Annual General Meeting will be organized after the webinar. The agenda of the General Meeting consist of topics based on Bylaws.

    Both the webinar and the Annual Meeting will be organized in Zoom. Please, register: bit.ly/3PHsj4P

    Presentations:

    Nathalie Touze: Role of geosynthetics in sustainable development and the circular economy 2023_01_19Download
    John Kraus: Microplastics and geosynthetics 20230119Download
  • Invitation to the Webinar on Sustainability of Geosynthetics

    Invitation to the Webinar on Sustainability of Geosynthetics

    IGS Nordic Chapter is proud to invite all interested to the First Geosynthetic Webinar!

    Webinar is organised on Thursday 10th of March 2022 in connection with the First Annual Meeting of the IGS Nordic Chapter. The webinar starts at 13 pm CET.

    The keynote lecture on Sustainability of Geosyntetics will be presented by Henning Ehrenberg from NAUE.

    Preliminary program:

    Webinar is free of charge and open for all interested. It’s organised virtually in Zoom. Pre-register here to get the access link! Sign up for the webinar and the annual meeting