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Snow drops, Hepatica and Anemone aren’t the only things cropping up. This year the spring equinox fell on March 20, marking the astronomical first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere....

The Jeremiah Morrow Bridge is Ohio’s tallest bridge, hovering 239 ft. above the Little Miami River gorge. The crossing, located between Fort Ancient and Oregonia, is also one of the state’s...

The famous children’s song “A Bicycle Built for Two” has an interesting history. Englishman Harry Dacre wrote it after he arrived in New York in 1881 with his bicycle. Customs officers...

We had a great webinar last week on the design of FRP pilings. It was nice to get into the design details since FRP fender pilings provide an optimal combination of high strength and low...

Comments That Got My Attention at Infrastructure Day Last week I summarized the composite industry’s advocacy efforts during Infrastructure Day in Washington D.C. February 13-14. This...

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...

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,...

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been adopted as a mainstream construction material, particularly in structural strengthening applications, pedestrian bridges and rebar. For...

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...