The use of soil reinforcement to create retaining walls and steep slopes is the best known and documented area of geosynthetics. For many sites however the assumption is that this will mean a well graded granular fill material or a specific face finish.

This presentation will look at the wider range of fill materials which can be used to provide greater cost and environmental benefits and the huge range of aesthetic finishes achievable with proper detailing and quality construction.

Dave Woods is a Geotechnical Engineer with over 25 years experience in the design and construction of civil and geotechnical engineering projects. He has worked throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East and presented numerous papers on best practice in the application of geosynthetics in Civil Engineering and the benefits in cost and time savings and improvements to environmental sustainability. Dave has designed and built over 2.5 million square metres of reinforced soil structures globally.

Dave is events secretary for the IGS UK committee and also a member of the ISSMGE Technical Committee TC218, looking at the design and installation of reinforced soil structures.