 | | The research team: Associate Professor Ernest Baafi, Dr Chris Lukey, Dr Jan Nemcik and Associate Professor Ian Porter, are pictured with Gary Gibson from ACARP, who have awarded the team $1.2M in funding for their project. | |
Road to success: UOW research team gets $1.2M to overhaul road building practice
23 December, 2008
A group of researchers from the School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering have secured a total of more than $1.5 million for a project that will change the way we build roads.
The Alternative Skin Reinforcement project will make roadway development safer, cheaper and easier to install.
The UOW team - Ernest Baafi, Chris Lukey, Jan Nemcik and Ian Porter - are developing polymeric materials to replace steel mesh in underground coal mine roadways, which researchers say is a ‘radical̵...
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