The largest landfill in Estonia, Pääsküla Landfill, just outside the capital city of Tallinn, was capped in 2005 with the work finishing in 2006.
After the first pilot project installation of a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) in a 1 km long section of the Havel-Oder-Waterway in 1997/98, a second project followed shortly after.
The City of Bad Elster, Germany resolved to put in new sewage lines. Secondary protection for piping was necessary to protect medical water in the area.
The following example illustrates a project using a needlepunched geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) as a stand-alone sealing barrier for a retention dam.
The devasting flooding that took place in 2002 has led to various of dyke construction projects in order to be better prepared for future flood situations.
The project had been discussed for more than 40 years before the three-laned road (width 11.50 m) was finally constructed in 2002.
For the sealing of a base of golf course pond a 30cm layer of sand benonite mixture was designed to be placed in Samsung Everland Gapyung Benest Golf course.
The necessary construction work includes widening the almost 4 km long runway by two meters in order to accommodate the 700 ton "silver bird" with its wing span of almost 80 meters.
When constructing or extending new roads, the responsible designers and contractors are increasingly faced with the task of preventing soil contamination.
One of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilley is extending its facility at Windlesham near London in the U.K. The scheme comprises new research laboratories of 15,352 m².