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Mar 13, 2025

Visible Spectrum – FRP’s Color Wheel

Pantone, a global authority on color, chose “Peach Fuzz” as the Color of the Year for 2024. The Pantone Color Institute stated that the shade symbolizes resilience and hope. Color is a...
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Sep 9, 2021

Infrastructure Funding Looks Promising for All: Including FRP Composites

Like most of the country, those of us who have dedicated ourselves to improving our nation’s infrastructure were pleased to see the bipartisan infrastructure bill [Infrastructure Investment...
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Feb 10, 2021

Cliff Notes For the Design and Evaluation of FRP Infrastructure Products

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about the installation of a complex fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite rail platform project at Chelsea Rail Station in Massachusetts. This...
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Apr 8, 2020

COVID-19 Infrastructure Insights

According to an Associated General Contractors of America survey, contractors face materials and labor shortages, delivery delays and cancellations. In 2020, the industry hit a high-water...
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Mar 25, 2020

How To Pick The Right Surface

In my business I talk a lot about selecting the right surface for people to walk and run on. And not because my favorite sport, American football, is so dependent on the playing surface,...
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Mar 18, 2020

Futuristic FRP Thrives In Everyday Settings

Despite its introduction to the building industry in the 1960s, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites is still considered a rookie material in an infrastructure dominated by steel and...
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Nov 6, 2019

New Solutions for Deteriorating Bridges

Deteriorating infrastructure, especially bridges, is a frequent topic in the news. No bridge is exempt from having structural issues given the constantly increasing traffic count, and the...
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Jun 5, 2019

My Infrastructure Day on Capitol Hill

Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to testify before a congressional subcommittee on how innovative materials can improve the resiliency of our transportation infrastructure. It was a...
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Jan 9, 2019

2019 Infrastructure Full Speed Ahead

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.,...
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Dec 13, 2018

The Imagine Act: The Future of Infrastructure and Composites

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...
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