A front-page Saturday Bangor Daily News story reports on Friday’s visit to UMaine by representatives of a Russian company with broad responsibilities for transportation infrastructure at the 2014 Winter Olympics. They were in Maine to investigate the possibility of using bridge-in-a-backpack technology, developed at UMaine and licensed to an Orono-based company called Advanced Infrastructure […]
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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 […]
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The Emergency Management news Web site features a story about bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed in UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “The new technology could be one way to help rebuild the country’s bridge infrastructure, which has scored poorly in recent years on an annual report card of their integrity,” the story notes.
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Contact: Vicky Blanchette, 581-2204 ORONO — The University of Maine College of Engineering has selected former faculty member Lawrence L. Kazmerski, now the executive director of the Science and Technology Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., to receive the 2010 the Edward T. Bryand Distinguished Engineering […]
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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 […]
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Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2138 Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center and private company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies LLC (AIT) are talking with a Russian company about exporting UMaine’s Bridge-in-a-BackpackTM technology to Russia for use in preparation for increased traffic related to the 2014 Winter […]
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CompositesWorld.com noted a recent story in the Boston Globe which highlighted UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology.
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Comments from Mick Peterson of the UMaine mechanical engineering faculty are included in a Bangor Daily News story reporting on a tidal power forum held Saturday at Maine Maritime Academy.
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Monday’s Boston Globe includes a story about “bridge-in-a-backpack” technology created at UMaine. The story features comments from Prof. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, along with Brit Svoboda, chief executive of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies. His company licenced the technology from UMaine to develop it for commercial applications.
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Knud Hermansen of the UMaine engineering faculty provided expertise that helped the town of Minot settle a dispute over a building permit. The town’s board of appeals voted on Tuesday night to reverse a previous decision and grant a land developer permission to build on a lot located beyond the end of York Road.
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