Feb 20, 2019
Last week I participated in the FRP composite industry’s Infrastructure Advocacy fly-in to Washington DC. It is the fourth year in a row that our trade organization, the American Composite Manufacturer’s Association (ACMA),...
Feb 20, 2019
Last week I participated in the FRP composite industry’s Infrastructure Advocacy fly-in to Washington DC. It is the fourth year in a row that our trade organization, the American Composite Manufacturer’s Association (ACMA),...
Topics: ACMA Infrastructure Day, infrastructure bill, Imagine Act
Feb 13, 2019
In our last blog, we talked about the unique challenges faced by the Nevada Department of Transportation’s (NDOT) State Route 28 Shared-Use Path project. Miles of undeveloped, pristine, rocky shoreline also pushed the envelope...
Topics: vehicle bridges, lake tahoe
Feb 6, 2019
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been adopted as a mainstream construction material, particularly in structural strengthening applications, pedestrian bridges and rebar. For most FRP bridge applications, the steel...
Topics: vehicle bridges, FRP, lake tahoe
Jan 30, 2019
In 1758, Great Britain’s Royal Navy used copper sheathing to clad the bottoms of its warships. But it wasn’t to shield the wooden hulls from artillery or the ravages of seawater. The alloy “armor” was designed to ward off the...
Jan 23, 2019
A fresh round of Lunch & Learn programs kicked off this month. These meetings and presentations help spread the word about FRP technology for bridges, route platforms and waterfront applications. The questions that owners and...
Topics: frp bridge, FRP
Jan 9, 2019
These days the word infrastructure can mean different things to different people. Merriam-Webster defines the noun as “the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies)...
Topics: waterfront infrastructure, Infrastructure, Imagine Act
Jan 2, 2019
This has been a banner year for Composite Advantage in more ways than one. As we close out 2018 the song “Auld Lang Syne” comes to mind. Scottish poet Robert Burns first put the ancient song to paper in 1788. It still has a...
Topics: FRP, Conferences, Manufacturing Day, Imagine Act
Dec 19, 2018
Yellowstone National Park's Fishing Bridge recently benefited from one of the key attributes of fiberglass reinforced polymer (FRP) decking: light weight. Reducing the dead load on bridge structures affords engineers more...
Topics: vehicle bridges, frp bridge, FRP, Yellowstone National Park
Dec 13, 2018
Every year, we make the annual trek to Washington DC to support the composite industry’s annual infrastructure day. This year our trip coincided with the Trump Administration’s unveiling of its infrastructure initiative. Plastic...
Topics: Infrastructure, infrastructure bill, Imagine Act
Nov 29, 2018
Since 1992, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) has championed more than $15.6 billion in funds to support more than 54,000 trail and active transportation projects. To date, over 13,000 miles of U.S. Bicycle Routes have been...
Topics: trails, trail bridges, rails-to-trails