FIU researchers develop ultra-high performance concrete to bolster aging U.S. infrastructure

The middle-of-the-night collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside is spurring a recommitment across South Florida and the world to aging infrastructure. At FIU, Atorod Azizinamini, director of the Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure, and Sustainability, and a team of scientists are working to develop new solutions that can make buildings and bridges safer by retrofitting rather than rebuilding them. One of these solutions is called ultra-high performance concrete (see video), and the research team is working to make it more accessible to builders everywhere.

"We need to develop a system that will result into an infrastructure that will be with us for many, many years so that our kids and our grandkids don't have to have the same problems that we are facing," said Azizinamini.