AP Reports Visit by Russian Company
An Associated Press story on several news websites picks up on a Wednesday UMaine news release about UMaine “bridge in a backpack” technology. Representatives of a Russian company and others involved with that country’s transportation infrastructure are visiting UMaine this week to assess the technology and its possible usefulness for infrastructure related to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. A Friday morning news event at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center will include UMaine Prof. Habib Dagher; Brit Svoboda, president and CEO of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies, UMaine’s technology development partner on this project; and from the Russian company Noivy Proekt.