Bridge to Opportunities
You wouldn’t expect to find a bridge with state-of-the-art GFRP decking on a two-lane, rural road. But there’s one on Elizabeth Church Road in Morgan County, Tenn. Constructed through...
Read MoreComposites are used all over the world to help construct and repair a wide variety of infrastructure applications, from buildings and bridges to roads to and railways.
You wouldn’t expect to find a bridge with state-of-the-art GFRP decking on a two-lane, rural road. But there’s one on Elizabeth Church Road in Morgan County, Tenn. Constructed through...
Read MoreColombian composites firm Soling SAS recently manufactured 840 GFRP dome panels to cover the country’s largest potable water tank, providing a durable and aesthetically-pleasing solution that will protect the...
Read MoreUnchartered Power in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. is providing clean energy for electric vehicles (EV) in a whole new way. In the city’s Innovation District, solar power panels are being embedded...
Read MoreCarbon fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) is being used to build new service ramps to bridge the gap between the rail trolleys and the station platforms on the Memphis Area Transit...
Read MoreThe U.S. infrastructure is crying out for attention. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the country needs to spend $4.5 trillion by 2025 to fix the country’s...
Read MoreKreysler & Associates supplied fiber-reinforced polymer sunshades for the retrofit of a San Francisco office building, providing a balance of aesthetics, function, and constructability. As mid-century office buildings fall...
Read MoreDuring Hurricane Matthew in 2016, sections of state Route A1A in Flagler Beach, Fla., – a key highway and hurricane evacuation route – collapsed. The Florida Department of Transportation...
Read MoreTo meet the urgent need to medical shelters caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Core Composites is developing its rapidly deployable Tupelo Flat emergency shelter solution, normally used by U.S....
Read MoreFiberCore Europe developed SUREbridge, a circular solution in which a composite fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) deck is placed on an existing concrete bridge. Crumbling, unsafe concrete bridges and viaducts handling...
Read MoreLess than a decade ago, FRP composite utility pole manufacturers were going to utility companies to make the value case for installing their more expensive, yet significantly lighter weight...
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