IGS North America
IGS North America (IGS-NA) is a chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society and represents IGS members in Canada and the United States. The mission of IGS North America is to provide leadership in advancing the education and research of geosynthetics, in strong cooperation with IGS, via technical conferences, seminars, workshops, and publications.
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- Business Type:
- Professional association
- Industry Type:
- Environmental - Environmental Management
- Market Focus:
- Internationally (various countries)
- Year Founded:
- 1988
- Employees:
- 1-10
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IGS North America, formerly known as NAGS (the North American Geosynthetics Society), was established as a Chapter of the IGS (International Geosynthetics Society) in 1988. IGS-NA (The North American Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society) is an organization in which individual and student members comprise the learned society whose mission is to support the development of geosynthetic technologies through education, communication and networking. Towards those goals we organize short courses on a variety of geosynthetic topics (typically 3 – 5 per year), organize or participate as co-organizers and sponsors of conferences such as the Biannual Geosynthetics Conferences put on in odd years with IFAI and GMA, various conferences with the Geosynthetics Research Institute, ASCE, and other local and regional organizations. In many instances, IGS-NA provides the technical arm to develop the technical portion of the conference sessions. Our members are eligilble to participate in all IGS-NA and IGS events and receive discounts in accordance with the individual guidelines of each conference and are typically substantial enough to compensate for the IGS-NA membership fee with just one event registration. Programs sponsored by IGS-NA at our events include Student Award program, Awards of Excellence and others, all of which provide public and financial recognition to the award recipients. IGS-NA is managed by an elected Board of 9 Directors and 1 Executive Director.
The mission of IGS North America (The North American Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society) is to provide leadership in advancing geosynthetics education and research to attain their appropriate and widespread use as engineering materials as the Chapter of the International Geosynthetic Society (IGS) for the United States of America and Canada. IGS North America will accomplish its mission through:
- Organization of technical conferences, seminars and workshops.
- Advanced training of current users of geosynthetics.
- Training future users of geosynthetics.
- Training geosynthetic educators.
- Promotion of geosynthetics as part of engineering curricula.
- Targeting impactful new members.
- Better communication with members.
- Enhanced partnerships with associated organizations.