The Advanced Structures & Composites Center’s (ASCC) Wood Composites Manager Russell Edgar and ASCC Executive Director Dr. Habib Dagher featured in Maine Public article discussing Senator Angus King’s request for the General Services Administration to use mass timber in construction and renovation of government buildings. The ASCC is home to the Maine Mass Timber Commercialization […]
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The forest products industry has long been a significant component of Maine’s economy, with 89% of the state being forested. However, in recent years, declining demand and market challenges resulted in the shutdown of many Maine paper mills, causing the loss of thousands of jobs. The innovation of one such shut-down mill makes it home […]
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ORONO, Maine – The Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) is thrilled to announce the hire of Jake Snow as a Wood Technologist working with our Wood Composites team! Originally from Plainfield, Connecticut, Snow began his Forest Operations, Bioproducts & Bioenergy studies at the University of Maine. As an undergraduate, he got his start on […]
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The ASCC’s founding executive director, Dr. Habib Dagher, and UMaine VolturnUS & VolturnUS+ Technologies were featured in Aegir Insights: Long-awaited gigascale US floating wind play weighs anchor for the Maine-stream. Read the article here. The University of Maine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) is an industry leader of the U.S. floating offshore wind industry. […]
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Susan MacKay, a senior R&D program manager at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, and Hemant Pendse, professor of chemical engineering and founder of the UMaine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, were featured on Maine Public’s show “Maine Calling” which focused on the emerging innovations of forest products. Listen to the full episode here. “We’re looking […]
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Cong Chen, a recent doctoral recipient at the University of Maine, has been honored with the 2023 FPS Award. The Forest Products Society (FPS), an organization that recognizes trailblazers in the forestry sector, bestows the FPS Wood Award upon individuals who demonstrate exceptional leadership in the field and make significant contributions to the realm of […]
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Murtada Alrubaie is a Ph.D. candidate working on his dissertation at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC). Originally from a city south of Baghdad in Iraq, he obtained two engineering degrees before coming to UMaine. Alrubaie received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Basrah in 2005, and his master’s degree […]
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The Maine Mass Timber Event, a daylong conference focused on established and emerging cost-effective mass timber construction technologies that are growing in popularity nationwide and around the globe, will be held Oct. 11 at the University of Maine, offered by UMaine’s Maine Mass Timber Commercialization Center in partnership with WoodWorks – Wood Products Council. The […]
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The Bangor Daily News recently featured UMaine’s cross-laminated timber research in its “series seeking to understand how the Bangor region could grow its economy.” From the BDN: “Mass timber and CLT is the first real wood product that competes with and displaces steel and concrete rather than other wood products,” said Stephen Shaler, director of UMaine’s […]
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Reported by MaineBiz: “UMaine gets $455K for ‘mass timber’ commercialization center” The University of Maine System has landed a $454,532 federal grant to create a center to accelerate the use of Maine-sourced timber and engineered wood composites in place of steel and concrete for larger construction projects. In a joint statement announcing the grant from […]
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