08/01/2019
In conjunction with The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), the Geosynthetics Interest Group of South Africa (GIGSA) and International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, the IGS is pleased to announce the 17th African Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (17th ARCSMGE) on 7-9 October 2019 in Cape Town, South Africa. GIGSA and IGS will contribute to the conference with a Short Course to be held on Monday 7 October 2019. The Geosynthetics Short Course topics and schedule will be announced at a later date. Furthermore, the deadline for abstracts for geosynthetic based papers has been extended to 31 January 2019. We highly encourage members to participate in this opportunity. To submit your abstracts, click on the following link: https://submissions.arc2019.org/author/submit.php