Shillong, Aug 13: A one day awareness workshop on “Next Frontiers in Civil Engineering: Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure of North East Region” was organized here on Monday.

The workshop was organized by the Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s Research Association (ATIRA) on behalf of the Office of the Textile Commissioner, Union Ministry of Textiles in collaboration with the State Public Works Department.

Secretary, PWD (R&B), P. R. Marwein, Chief Engineer (NH), Shri B. P. Marak, Chief Engineer, (Roads), Shri L. D. Suchiang, ATIRA Director M. N. Subramania, Expert Engineer, ATIRA-NERC, S. C. Sarma, Engineers from the state PWD, PHE and Water Resources attended the workshop.

Speaking on the occasion, M. N. Subramania said that the programme was organised to create awareness on the high strength polyester woven.

Geotextiles which have high tensile strengths, low elongation, low creep and excellent durability are recommended for applications in hilly regions for strengthening the road, ground improvement, basal reinforcement of embankments and also to stabilize the slope where the soil is very soft and loose due to heavy rainfall in the region.

The day long workshop include technical sessions on topics – Scheme for Promotion Usage of Geotechnical Textiles in NER, Applications of three Dimensional Geocells in Highway Construction, Geotextile Testing Facilities in ATIRA, Presentation on various Geotextile products and its applications from the house of Tech Fab India, Application on Geosynthetics in water storage reservoirs and Design of Highway drainage system using Geocomposite drainage layers.