11 October 2006
Associate Professor Abdelmalek Bouazza of Monash's Department of Civil Engineering has received the 2006 International Geosynthetics Society Award and gold medal.
He received the honour for his outstanding contribution to the development of geosynthetics through scientific and technological achievements over the period 2002 to 2005.
The award and the medal were presented at a special ceremony on Friday 22 September in Yokohama, Japan, at the 8th International Conference on Geosynthetics.
The award is in recognition of Associate Professor Bouazza's research work on gas migration through geosynthetic clay liners, used in municipal and hazardous waste containment facilities.
His work developed a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms controlling gas flow in geosynthetic clay liners for the benefit of the geosynthetics and geoenvironmental engineering industries. |
