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Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s Offshore Wind Laboratory Awarded Prestigious LEED Gold Green Building Certification

Orono, MAINE – The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center the LEED Gold certification for its newly constructed Offshore Wind Laboratory. This is the first LEED Gold‐certified building on the University of Maine campus. “This reflects our steadfast commitment to sustainable development as we continue to […]

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‘Bridge-in-a-Backpack’ hits milestone

ORONO, Maine — The “Bridge-in-a-Backpack” technology developed at the University of Maine and licensed to an Orono startup company has received a key approval that could speed its commercial adoption. The Bridge-in-a-Backpack was more than a decade in development at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The technology is an innovative inflatable composite-concrete arch bridge that can reduce construction […]

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UMaine Wind Turbine Test Lab Complete

The new wind turbine blade test lab at the 37,000-foot expansion of the University of Maine AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center in Orono is complete and equipment testing is currently under way, according to Paul Melrose, the project manager for research and development. The lab equipment is being calibrated and tested, with commercial clients […]

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Offshore wind turbine research in Maine gets boost

ORONO — A $3 million federal grant to a University of Maine research center will be used for another piece of the puzzle in building windmills to harness the bountiful winds off Maine’s coast to produce energy. Habib Dagher of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center said the center will use the money for a […]

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Secretary of the Interior Visits University of Maine

Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar visited the University of Maine after being invited by Senator Susan Collins.His visit was to help him learn more about the offshore wind technology being developed at UMaine.They both agree, Maine is leading the way.” We have in fact the best wind resource of any coastal state.”Secretary Salazar toured […]

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UMaine deepwater offshore wind technology tests proceeding in the Netherlands

The team from UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is testing 1/50th-scale models at an offshore wind basin owned by a Dutch company called Marin. Three different types of floating platforms are being tested 16 hours a day and are being subjected to different wind and wave intensity levels that mimic conditions in the […]

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Deepwater wind power given boost from report

Giant wind turbine installations floating more than 10 miles off the Maine coast could be able to generate electricity at rates competitive with conventional sources in 2020, according to a report being released today by the University of Maine. University researchers say it seems possible to hit a target of 8-10 cents a kilowatt hour […]

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Official hopes firms will put turbines in Gulf of Maine

ORONO, Maine — Middle East instability may be one reason more people than expected attended or tuned in online Tuesday to a wind power developers conference at the University of Maine. As popular uprisings have broken out in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and elsewhere, the price of oil has been rising, pushed up by uncertainty […]

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UMaine Technology Awarded Patent

A team from the University of Maine was just awarded a patent for a creating a technology that’s been researched all throughout the world. As Caroline Connolly reports, it’s something they believe could strengthen Maine’s job market.At first glance, it looks like an ordinary wooden beam, but a new technology is doubling its strength.”It’s almost […]

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Kenway Corp’s Hybrid Composites Culvert Repair System Successfully Installed at Three New Locations

Online PR News – 06-December-2010 – – Three additional Hybrid Composite Culvert Repair Systems have been successfully installed in Ebeemee and Indian Townships in central Maine. Developed by Kenway Corporation of Augusta Maine and the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (AEWC) the Hybrid Composite Culvert Repair System utilizes pre-engineered light-weight composite panels that […]

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