Robbie Posada Featured Student for Hinkley Center Solid and Hazardous Waste

Congratulations for Robbie Posada for being recognized as the Hinkley Center’s for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management’s featured student. Currently, Robbie is a concrete research assistant in UF’s civil engineering department, where he is currently working on the Autoclaved Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) – Using Municipal Waste Solid Incineration as an Aerated Agent for the Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management at the University of Florida. The primary objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of beneficially reusing municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash as an aerating/ expansion agent for AAC. Robbie is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the and was born and raised in Miami, FL, with origins from Barranquilla, Colombia. Currently, Robbie is a is a concrete research assistant in the department of civil and coastal engineering. Read more at https://www.hinkleycenter.org/

ACI Promotes Global Consensus on Low Carbon

ACI President Antonio Nanni recently shared a memorandum highlighting ACI’s progress on developing Low-Carbon Concrete. President Nanni & Dean Frank, the Executive Director of ACI’s Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete (NEU), recently presented on Low-Carbon Concrete at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP).

President Nanni credited ACI Committee 323: Low-Carbon Concrete Code, of which Dr. Ferraro is the Vice Chair, with developing the first code on low-carbon concrete, ACI CODE-323-24, Low-Carbon Concrete—Code and Commentary. This code is set to be published later this year.

Read more at this link: Working Toward a Global Consensus on Low-Carbon Concrete

Building Blocks: Dr. Ferraro is featured in UF’s Explore Magazine

Madeleine Murphree is featured on the ACI Engineering Greatness Podcast

Timothy Mueller & Madeleine Murphree are named recipients of 2023 ACI Scholarships

Dr. Ferraro Presents at the University of Florida Eye Opener Meeting, April 2023

Dr. Ferraro receives the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s 2022-2023 Pramod P. Khargonekar Junior Faculty Award.

Dr. Ferraro receives the 2022 American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award.