Early Coverage Of Friday’s Bridge Technology Announcement
The Bangor Daily News posted a story to its website a few hours after Friday’s announcement that a company marketing UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology had signed a memorandum of understanding with a Russian firm that could put the carbon-fiber bridges, developed at the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, to use during the 2014 Winter Oympics in Sochi, Russia. The Russian firm, Noviy Proekt LLC, is partnering with Advanced Infrastructure Technologies LLC of Orono to look at other uses for the technology in Russia and surrounding countries. In addition, the bridge technology was highlighted in a story on a website that focuses on regional preparedness, urban security and first-response execution.