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10/22/2013
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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announces the winners of its 2013 Pervious Concrete Cylinder Competition. The competition took place at the ACI Fall 2013 Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. In this competition, teams were challenged to apply sustainability concepts and use their knowledge of concrete mixture design by producing pervious concrete which balanced permeability and splitting tensile strength. Teams were additionally challenged to develop a mixture design which developed the highest load-to-cost ratio. Highest Load-to-Cost Ratio Category 1st Place: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León – UANL1 Faculty Advisor – Dr. Alejandro Durán-Herrera Marcos Balderas-Varela, Jorge E. De-La Fuente-Valdez, Hugo F. Martínez-Maldonado Yanni G. Rangel-Mora, Yazmin Torres-Ríos 2nd Place: Northern Arizona University Faculty Advisor – Dr. Chun-Hsing Jun Ho Junyi Shan, Darius Ikan-Tubui Ishaku 3rd Place: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL2 Faculty Advisor – Dr. Alejandro Durán-Herrera Alan A. Aguilar-Dominguez, Luis A. Alvarado-Leal, Pedro Avitia-Valdéz, David G. González-Moreno, Rafael Ortiz-Ponce Cylinder Performance Category 1st Place: Ryerson University Faculty Advisor – Dr. Medhat Shehata Mahmoud Al-Fayez, Mo'tasem Aljawhary, Osama Al-Mohammedi, Shahid Quraishi, Yousuf Faroqi 2nd Place: Universidad de Costa Rica (GPRL) Faculty Advisor –Ruben Salas Grace Foulkes, Pablo Echeverría, Ricardo Zamora, Luis Álvarez 3rd Place: University of Arkansas Faculty Advisor – Frances Griffith Kaisha Plambeck, Matthew Watters
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announces the winners of its 2013 Pervious Concrete Cylinder Competition. The competition took place at the ACI Fall 2013 Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.
In this competition, teams were challenged to apply sustainability concepts and use their knowledge of concrete mixture design by producing pervious concrete which balanced permeability and splitting tensile strength. Teams were additionally challenged to develop a mixture design which developed the highest load-to-cost ratio.
1st Place: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León – UANL1 Faculty Advisor – Dr. Alejandro Durán-Herrera Marcos Balderas-Varela, Jorge E. De-La Fuente-Valdez, Hugo F. Martínez-Maldonado Yanni G. Rangel-Mora, Yazmin Torres-Ríos
2nd Place: Northern Arizona University Faculty Advisor – Dr. Chun-Hsing Jun Ho Junyi Shan, Darius Ikan-Tubui Ishaku
3rd Place: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL2 Faculty Advisor – Dr. Alejandro Durán-Herrera Alan A. Aguilar-Dominguez, Luis A. Alvarado-Leal, Pedro Avitia-Valdéz, David G. González-Moreno, Rafael Ortiz-Ponce
1st Place: Ryerson University Faculty Advisor – Dr. Medhat Shehata Mahmoud Al-Fayez, Mo'tasem Aljawhary, Osama Al-Mohammedi, Shahid Quraishi, Yousuf Faroqi
2nd Place: Universidad de Costa Rica (GPRL) Faculty Advisor –Ruben Salas Grace Foulkes, Pablo Echeverría, Ricardo Zamora, Luis Álvarez
3rd Place: University of Arkansas Faculty Advisor – Frances Griffith Kaisha Plambeck, Matthew Watters
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