IGS North America 2025-2026 Elections
It's election season for IGS North America. With the 2025 - 2026 Board Elections, we transition from Dr. Ben Leshchinsky...
Our team at IGS North America is on a mission to provide leadership in advancing geosynthetics education and research to attain appropriate and widespread use as engineering materials.
Connecting Canada and US-based private practice, academic, government, industry, and other engineering professionals who improve infrastructure, enhance sustainability, and advance education with the use of geosynthetics.
Look for your ballot in email for the 2025-2026 Board of Directors Election. Learn more about the candidates.
Our Members influence IGS North America’s individual, benefactor (company), and student members contribute to all sectors of civil engineering. We are part of the most sensitive environmental projects, water resource conservation, and the largest roadway, railway, and airfields endeavors. We support safer, higher-yield mining designs. We extend infrastructure service lives, substantially reduce the carbon footprint of construction, and foster the next generation of engineers.
Access to industry networking, highly ranked IGS Journals, the IGS Digital Library, and other technical documents.
Save on registrations to all IGS-NA and IGS events around the world.
Join field interest groups and committees, be recognized for contributions, and expand your network of expertise.
IGS North America is a 501(c)6 not-for-profit organization that serves its educational mission through organizing engineering conferences and trade shows, hosting in-person and online workshops, partnering with other geotechnical organizations, providing fellowships and job shadowing for students, and much more.
Recognize your field colleagues’ contributions in sustainability, infrastructure, and the IGS.
Announcements from the Board, conference and workshop opportunities, member achievements, and more.
It's election season for IGS North America. With the 2025 - 2026 Board Elections, we transition from Dr. Ben Leshchinsky...
PHOTO: Dr. Virginia Smith (left) and Dr. Kristin Sample-Lord (right) at Villanova's graduation ceremony. Dr. Smith received the Outstanding Faculty...
Since 1999, the Ralph B. Peck Award from the ASCE Geo-Institute has recognized outstanding contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession...
IGS North America will support a new infrastructure summit to be held in conjunction with GeoU 2023. The GeoU event...
IGS North America is supported directly by annual Individual and Benefactor Member (company) dues. Benefactor support helps keep individual dues lower while ensuring that the chapter meets its general operational costs, supports continued growth in educational initiatives, and provides funding for event development and field partnerships. Contact the chapter if your company would like to get involved as a Benefactor Member.
Geosynthetics are a key component of the needed solutions and best practices associated with sustainable, lower carbon footprint and economically advantageous design and construction practices.
IGS North America’s Board of Directors reflects the diverse personal and professional backgrounds of our individual, benefactor, and student members in Canada and the United States.
IGS-NA encourages its members to take part in chapter events, IGS conferences, and select sister-society opportunities.
IGS North America will support a new infrastructure summit to be held in conjunction with GeoU 2023. The GeoU event...
IGS-NA is organizing this 5th Pan-American Conference on Geosynthetics, 28 April – 1 May 2024 in Toronto. Get involved!
The 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics (12 ICG) will be held 17 – 21 September 2023 in Rome. The 12th...
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IGS North America will support a new infrastructure summit to be held in conjunction with GeoU 2023. The GeoU event...
IGS-NA is organizing this 5th Pan-American Conference on Geosynthetics, 28 April – 1 May 2024 in Toronto. Get involved!
The 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics (12 ICG) will be held 17 – 21 September 2023 in Rome. The 12th...
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IGS-NA encourages its members to take part in chapter events, IGS conferences, and select sister-society opportunities.
The 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics (12 ICG) will be held 17 – 21 September 2023 in Rome. The 12th ICG is the last IGS conference before our own GeoAmericas 2024!
IGS-NA is organizing this 5th Pan-American Conference on Geosynthetics, 28 April – 1 May 2024 in Toronto. Get involved!
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We are the North American Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), serving and representing infrastructure and sustainability professionals in Canada and the United States.
