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ASCC’s founding executive director, Dr. Habib Dagher, featured in Reuters for floating offshore wind
The Reuters article outlines the dichotomy of floating offshore wind on the East and West Coasts of the United States. “Maine is taking a ‘deliberate’ approach to scaling up floating wind, said Professor Habib Dagher, executive director at the University of Maine. ‘We often call it the 1, 10, 100 plan. It includes putting a…
Article by ASCC researchers published on recyclability of large-scale 3D printed polymer composite precast concrete forms
An article by UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) researchers, Katie M. Schweizer, Sunil Bhandari, Robero A. Lopez-Anido, and Lu Wang was recently published at the 11th International Conference on Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2023) in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. The article titled “Recycling Large-Scale 3D Printed Polymer Composite Precast Concrete Forms”, offers…
Article by ASCC and NREL researchers published on scale-model testing of offshore wind turbines
An article by UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) researchers Matthew Fowler, Eben Lenfest, Anthony Viselli, Andrew Goupee, Richard Kimball, and Lu Wang, along with National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers, Roger Bergua, Daniel Zalkind, Alan Wright, and Amy Robertson, has been published in Materials. The article titled, “Wind/Wave Testing of a 1:70-Scale Performance-Matched…


Designed to address labor shortages and supply chain issues that are driving high costs and constricting the supply of affordable housing, BioHome3D is the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based, recyclable materials

The American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit (AFloat) brings together industry, academia, academiarnment floating offshore wind experts from around the world to chart a course for floating offshore wind in the US.



Space-age gavels
In the latest session of the Maine legislature, at least nine wooden gavels were broken in the House of Representatives by House Speaker Michael Saxl as he…
Composite Strength
Editorial Voters who two years ago supported the state’s first attempt to fuel its university system with money for research and development now can see their…
The State Of Composites
Materials Made By Combining Several Others, Are Becoming Big Business In Maine By L. Mercedes Wesel David Patch imagines a town in Midcoast Maine known not…
Making Magic with Wood
By Susan Young, Bangor Daily News Carefully perched on a rock, Habib Dagher tapped away at the keys of a laptop computer balanced on steel rods…
Making magic with wood UM professor engineers feats with composites
By Susan Young Carefully perched on a rock, Habib Dagher tapped away at the keys of a laptop computer balanced on steel rods protruding from a…