
Key Speakers will be - Fred Gassner, Boyd Ramsey, Eric Blond, Kerry Rowe and Warren Hornsey.
ACIgs Forum on Geo-barriers
Registrations are now open for our first Technical Forum. We welcome you to join our panel of experts as they discuss Geomembrane Durability.
This is the first of our quarterly Technical Forums where each forum links to one of the IGS Technical Committee themes – in this case, Barriers.
The format of this Barriers Technical Forum will be as follows:
- Introducing the Key Speakers and the Panellists
- Presentations by the Key Speakers (30 minute in total)
- Q&A: Open the session for questions and answers and panel discussion with Key Speakers and Panellists.
During the Q&A and panel discussion, there will be questions selected from those received prior to the event, as part of the event promotion campaign, or any good questions that may be received during the presentations.
These questions can be emailed to info@acigs.org by 10:00AM Friday 19th March - sending them after this time frame may not guarantee they are selected.
Our panelists for this Barriers Technical Forum will be -
- Boyd Ramsey
- Eric Blond
- Kerry Rowe
- Fred Gassner
- Warren Hornsey
Topics to be discussed will be -
- Differences between the two methodologies from a physical chemistry perspective.
- Relationship between OIT (Std- and HP) depletion and long-term performance
- Repeatability of the tests on aged products and multi component geomembrane & report on ASTM D35 discussion t regarding these tests.
To register please complete your registration using the button below. You will be sent a email link once your registration has been completed.
The whole event will be no longer than an hour and a half.

Thankyou to our event sponsors
