Welcome

The organizing committee is happy to welcome you to our new event website! Here you will find more information about the objectives of the event, the speakers and the schedule. Please see our technical program.

Goal of the Workshop

Defining a path to broadly implement FRP bars for safe, economical and resilient concrete structures. Non-corrosive FRP rebars are an effective alternative to steel-reinforced concrete structures, with a potential broad market of applications. Hybrid FRP-metallic reinforcing is an emerging solution for ensuring seismic ductility and recovery. This workshop* is geared for stakeholders involved in concret construction, including owners, manufacturers, installers, distributors, engineers, architects, and provinces, state, and city/local officials. The workshop aims to define a path to more fully implement FRP bar and hybrid solutions for concrete structures.

We look forward seeing you in Toronto!

Organizers:

Chair: Brahim Benmokrane, Professor of Civil Engineering and Tier-1 Canada Reasearch Chair, and Industrial Research Chair, Director of CRUSMAC, Dept. Of Civil Engineering and Building Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; brahim.benmokrane@usherbrooke.ca

Co-Chair: Antonio Nanni, Inaugural Senior Scholar Professor and Chair Dept. of Civil and Arch Engineering, University of Miami, FL, USA; nanni@miami.edu

Co-Chair: Steven Nolan, Senior Structures Design Engineer, FDOT State Structures Design Office, Tallahassee, FL, USA; steven.nolan@dot.state.fl.us