Highway Waste Product Wins First ASCE Innovation Contest for Most Feasible, Green Engineering Idea

A tire reuse technology, Confined Aggregate Concrete, recently won the first American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Grand Challenge Infrastructure Innovation Contest for most feasible green engineering idea. Confined Aggregate Concrete is sold as Mechanical Concrete® and is a geosynthetic technology that confines any crushed stone or aggregate material inside of a thin-walled cylinder.  This…

Education Alliance Seeks Donations for West Virginia Teachers Impacted by Flooding

The Education Alliance is accepting online donations at FloodsOfSupport.com to offer teachers throughout West Virginia resources for classroom needs in the wake of recent torrential flooding. Amelia Courts, president/CEO of the Education Alliance, says 100 percent of all donations will go directly to teachers in schools severely impacted by historic flooding. “We are launching this…