GEOfabrics - Designed to Perform

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Landfill design

	Cylinder testing (28/01/05) Describes the site-simulation Cylinder Test and summarises 60,000 hours of testing with different stone types.
Downloadable File: Cylinder testing (115kB pdf)

	Installation and handling guide for landfills (30/10/09) This comprehensive document provides useful information for installing GEOfabrics' protectors & Protexia LFX composites in landfills. Information includes shipping and handling capacities, some installation and jointing methods, advice on safe handling & a COSHH statement.
Downloadable File: Landfill installation (300kB pdf)

	Landfill basal liner protection model specification for outside the UK (20/05/09) This Word document can be edited to describe generically a composite to provide both liner protection & leachate/gas drainage. It features all the essential clauses to ensure sound selection, installation and quality assurance backup
Downloadable File: Landfill basal liner protection model specification for outside the UK (60kB pdf)

	Landfill basal liner protection model specification for the UK (20/05/09) This Word document can be edited to describe generically a geotextile to protect a basal liner. It features all the essential clauses to ensure sound selection, installation and quality assurance backup to the UK's Environment Agency recommendations.
Downloadable File: Landfill basal liner protection model specification for the UK (60kB doc)

	Landfill capping liner protection model specification (20/05/08) This Word document can be edited to describe generically a geotextile to protect a capping liner (above &/or below). It features all the essential clauses to ensure sound selection, installation and quality assurance backup to the UK's Environment Agency recommendations.
Downloadable File: Landfill cap protector model specification (60kB doc)

	Landfill composite drain/protector model specification for outside the UK (20/05/09) This Word document can be edited to describe generically a composite to provide both liner protection & leachate/gas drainage. It features all the essential clauses to ensure sound selection, installation and quality assurance backup.
Downloadable File: Landfill composite drain/protector model specification for outside the UK (70k doc)

	Landfill composite drain/protector model specification for the UK (20/05/09) This Word document can be edited to describe generically a composite to provide both liner protection & leachate/gas drainage. It features all the essential clauses to ensure sound selection, installation and quality assurance backup to the UK's Environment Agency recommendations.
Downloadable File: Landfill composite drain/protector model specification for the UK (79kB doc)

	Shear box testing at Nottingham Trent University (28/01/05) Tests were carried out with selected geotextile protectors, smooth and textured geomembranes, & either a nylon block or with fine to medium gravel. The report lists both peak and residual shear angles for each combination.
Downloadable File: Shear box testing at Nottingham Trent University (75kB pdf)

	Stone geotextile chart (10/09/09) Summarises 60,000hours of testing to help you estimate the optimum geotextile protector for use at the base of a landfill for a given stone drainage blanket.
Downloadable File: GEOfabrics' stone geotextile calculator (65kB pdf)

	UK Environment Agency - regulation 15 (03/05/01) UK Environment Agency - regulation 15
Downloadable File: UK Environment Agency - regulation 15 (PDF)(702kB)

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