CONGRESS ORGANIZERS

The Geosynthetics Interest Group of South Africa (GIGSA)
South African Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society

PRESIDENT

Garth James

VICE-PRESIDENT

Kelvin Legge

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Garth James
Kelvin Legge
Peter Legg
Peter Davies
Peter Hardie
Kim Barnard
Mike Wittmann
Morné Breytenbach

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Peter Legg (Chair)
Garth James
Kelvin Legge
Peter Davies
Peter Hardie
Kim Barnard
Mike Wittmann
Morné Breytenbach
Lesley Ferreira

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Peter Davies (Chair) Kaytech Engineered Fabrics (RSA) www.kaytech.co.za
Prof. Abdelmalek Bouazza:  Monash University (Australia) www.civil.eng.monash.edu.au
Danie Brink: Jones & Wagener Consulting Civil Engineers (RSA) www.jaws.co.za/
John Coetzee: Jeffares & Green Consulting Engineers (RSA) www.jgi.co.za/
Andy Fourie: University of Western Australia (Australia) www.civil.uwa.edu.au
Peter Legg: Peter Legg Consulting Geo-environmental Engineers (RSA) peterlegg@telkomsa.co.za
Kelvin Legge: Department of Water Affairs & Forestry (RSA)  www.dwaf.gov.za
Riva Nortje: Jones & Wagener Consulting Civil Engineers (RSA) www.jaws.co.za/
Prof Ennio Palmeira: University of Brasilia (Brazil) www.unb.br/linguas/english/
Alan Parrock: ARQ Consulting Engineers (RSA) www.arq.co.za/
Prof Kerry Rowe: GeoEngineering Centre at Queens-RMC (Canada) www.geoeng.ca/About.htm
Helmut Zanzinger: SKZ - TeConA GmbH (Germany) www.skz.de/
Prof Jorge Zornberg: University of Texas at Austin (USA) www.ce.utexas.edu/
Nathalie Touze-Foltz (France) www.cemagref.fr