UMaine News

A group of UMaine engineering students known as Engineers Without Borders is working with the town of Farmington to design a new recreational bridge across the Sandy River, according to a story in the Lewiston Sun Journal. Engineers Without Borders was contacted by Farmington Town Manager Richard Davis as the town was seeking to reduce […]

The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, along with the DeepCwind Consortium, will host the First Annual Maine Deepwater Offshore Wind Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport. The event will be open to the public. The list of invitees is expected to include […]

The midcoast newspaper Village Soup has a story about the installation of a new bridge in Belfast.  The new bridge employs bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

Television stations WABI and WLBZ/WCSH broadcast Thursday reports about a bridge construction project in Belfast.  The Perkins Bridge is being replaced using bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

The ongoing Belfast bridge project using technology developed by UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center is highlighted in a Bangor Daily News story. The bridge-in-a-backpack technology has also been used in Pittsfield, Anson and Hermon.

Please Contact:  Roberta Laverty, AEWC, (207) 581-2110 Mylan Bannon, AIT, (207) 735-7399 BELFAST – The Perkins Bridge in Belfast is going high tech. The 28’ bridge has been carrying motorists across the Little River since 1921.   But, wear and tear on the deteriorating bridge has forced the state to consider a more durable option to […]

Maine Ahead magazine features an extensive profile of Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.  The story focuses primarily on offshore wind technology initiatives at the center, but also features background on Dagher himself and a sidebar about bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed there.

Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, commented in a Thursday WABI television story about the installation of a new bridge in Hermon.  The structure uses “bridge in a backpack” technology developed under Dagher’s direction at the UMaine center.  UMaine spinoff company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies is working with a local construction […]

Several UMaine initiatives, such as research into tidal power and the use of composites in bridge-building, were on display last week for attendees of the two-day Atlantica conference held in the Bangor area, according to a Mainebiz story. The conference, which drew more than 100 people from the U.S. and Canada, aims to promote increased […]

An extensive online report in the Chautauquan Daily, the official newspaper of the Chautauqua Institution, describes a Tuesday presentation by Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.  Dagher, speaking as part of the institution’s “Powering the Future” lecture series, described the potential for deep offshore wind power and talked about the […]