Visitors and Visits

GSI is delighted to show its facilities to members and nonmembers interested in, and involved with, all aspects of geosynthetics. We are about 4 miles (6 km) from the Philadelphia International Airport as shown below. Please visit us at your convenience, but do contact us beforehand.

That said, Bob Koerner, George Koerner and Grace Hsuan, make regular visits to members, visit universities, and attend many conferences and meetings. So as to gain a glimpse as to these outreach activities we present our major activities in addition to the regular course of events.

June 2009

June 1^st Bob Koerner presented a seminar in Ohio to the Mannik & Smith Group. June 10^th Bob and George Koerner gave an in-house course on QA/QC of Geosynthetics. June 11^th Prof. F. Tatsuoka, President of IGS, visited GSI and gave a lecture at U. of Delaware the following day. June 24^th Bob lectured at DuPont in Delaware on solar panels on exposed geomembranes at landfills. June 27^th GAI-LAP exams were given at GSI.

July 2009

July 2^nd John Guglielmetti of DuPont aided George and Bob with Pillow Testing of various sludges. July 13^th Bob Koerner gave a course to PaDER on pond liner design for brackhish liquids. July 15^th Pillow testing continued at GSI with John Guglielmetti of DuPont. July 16^th John Henderson of TC Geosynthetics visited us at GSI. July 20^th Joe Cavanaugh of Tensar Intl. visited us at GSI. July 22^nd Bob Koerner gave two lectures to the Corps of Engineers Infrastructure Conference in Cleveland. July 23^rd Bob visited CETCO’s new facilities in Chicago.

August 2009

August 12^th Wayne Hsieh of NPUST and GSI-Taiwan visited us at GSI. August 20^th CETCO and CETCO Contracting paid us a visit at GSI. August 25^th Bob inspected a 100 ft high reinforced slope in Pittsburgh on behalf of URS.

September 2009

September 2^nd we had visits from Archie Filshill and Tim Rafter (CETCO Contracting and CETCO Inc.). On September 7-8-9, Bob presented at Tensar/Netlon’s Jubilee Conference in London at the Institution of Canal Engineers Building. September 23^rd we had a visit from Tony Eith of Waste Management Inc. On September 24^th we had visits in the morning with Mario Paredes of Florida DOT and in the afternoon with Pascal Saunier and Bill Ragen of Afitex-Texel. September 30^th Dave Suits of NAGS visited with us on his way to ASTM Headquarters in nearby West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

October 2009

October 1^st we had a visit by Archie Filshill of CETCO Contracting. October 6^th Bob attended an IRS Workshop for 501(c)(3) organizations like GSI. October 22^nd Bob Sabanas of NTH visited discussing retaining walls. On October 23^rd Kent von Maubeuge of NAUE visited us discussing geogrids, GCLs and geomembranes.

November 2009

The Central PA-ASCE Conference on Nov. 3-4 was very impressive (400 participants) and Bob gave a sand drain/wick drain presentation. Helmut Zanzinger of SKZ in Germany visited us on the 5^th. Bob went to a surface impoundment which had “hippos” in San Juan, Texas on Nov. 9-10. Bob & Paula celebrated their 50^th Anniversary in NYC on Nov. 13-16. Geo and Bob visited a wall failure on the 20^th. The family had Thanksgiving in Chicago at Pauline and Doug’s home.

December 2009

We started off the month with a visit from Willie Lieu and Doug Brown of Tensar on December 1^st and then went to a splendid dinner hosted by Archie Filshill of CETCO Contracting on December 5^th. Our in-house landfill design and QA/QC courses were on December 7 and 8, 2010 followed by the certification exams. Tim Rafter of CETCO and Archie Filshill visited us on December 10^th. Bob went to visit Carlisle Geosynthetics on December 16^th and was very impressed by their efforts in developing solar energy. The month ended with a week in Florida and we just made it ahead of the cold weather. In all, a good year and we wish you a super 2010!