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3rd Regional Peer Exchange for Sustainable Eco-Resilient Bridges & Structures

Announcing the 3rd Regional (East Coast) Peer Exchange for Resilient Sustainable Bridges

EPxRSB-2025

hosted by North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

August 4-5, 2025

Building on two previous successful peer exchanges in 2023 and 2024:

SPxRBS-2023: 1st Southeastern Peer Exchange for Resilient and Sustainable Bridges (August 8th, 2023) Presentations 

NPxRBS-2024: Northeastern Peer Exchange for Resilient and Sustainable Bridges (August 7, 2024) Abstracts  |  Presentations

 

Organizing Committee:

  • Dr. Rudi Seracino, PX Chair
  • Mr. Steve Nolan, PX Secretariat
  • Dr. Greg Lucier, NCSU Research Professor
  • Mr. Trey Carroll, NCDOT Structures Management Unit
  • Mr. Cabell Garbee, NCDOT Materials and Tests Unit
  • Dr. Taylor Brodbeck, NCSU Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Dr. Mohammad Qambar, NCSU Research Scholar

 

Vision Statement:

  • A regional collaboration promoting holistic RESILIENT and SUSTAINABLE infrastructure solutions with a focus on efficient highway and pedestrian bridges and structures.

 

Goals:

  • Increasing RESILIENCE (robust strength, durability, long service-life, and dynamic adaptability);
  • Using EFFECTIVE & ECONOMICAL solutions considering mature and emerging technologies (materials, fabrication, hauling, construction and design practices);
  • And SUSTAINABLE (dynamic adaption, lower embodied energy and GHG/CO2 emissions, incorporating recycled, repurposed and upscaled materials) long-life structures.

 

Free Event:

  • Participation in this event is free thanks to sponsorship provided by the FRP Institute.

 

Presentation Details:

  • Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes each with 5 minutes for Q&A.
  • Presentations are encouraged from owner agencies, engineering institutes/societies, academic institutions, and trade organizations.

 

Key Dates:

  • Draft technical program will be uploaded soon.
  • Presentation PowerPoint (final draft) submittal: July 14, 2025
  • Registration Deadline: July 14, 2025

 

Registration Form:

  • Register attendance here.
  • Selected Presentations may submit a full journal article in a special edition of Sustainable Structures on Resilient-Sustainable Bridges and Structures.

 

Tentative Program: (PDH will be requested prior to the peer exchange)

Sunday, August 3, 2025 (approximately 9:00am – 6:00pm)

Optional Tour: Harkers Island Bridge tour, including transportation, lunch, technical presentations, and bridge tour (participation requires arrival on Saturday, August 2, 2025)

Monday, August 4, 2025 (technical program)

  • Lunch (12:00 – 1:00pm)
  • Technical Presentations (1:00 – 5:00pm)
  • Constructed Facilities Laboratory Tour (5:00 – 6:30pm)
  • Dinner (6:30pm)

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (technical program)

  • Breakfast (8:00 – 9:00am)
  • Technical Presentations (9:00 – 12:00pm)
  • Boxed Lunch (12:00pm)

 

Themes: (other relevant themes are welcome)

  1. Economically achieving, long lasting and low-maintenance structures
    1. Cement/concrete options
    2. Reinforcing options
    3. Maintenance – Regionally sensitive needs & challenges
  2. Holistic design approaches for sustainable durability (using a “Systems View” perspective)
  3. Economies of scale – Fostering supply chain security while lowering costs
  4. Enabling the circular economy
  5. Efficacy & Synergy between Cementitious, Stainless-steel, and FRP material solutions:
    1. PLC cement blends, LC3, & ternary blends
    2. Leveraging lower pH & carbonation effects for FRP longevity but is this a concern for corrosion-resistant steel rebar (e.g. galvanized, low-chromium, stainless steel)
    3. Seawater and/or sea sand concrete (e.g. SeaCon)
  6. Leveraging new FHWA-UTC funding and opportunities
  7. UHPC is very resilient, but how can we make it more sustainable?
  8. Post-hazard functionality, repairability, replaceability

 

Location:           

  • Fitts-Woolard Hall
  • 915 Partners Way
  • North Carolina State University
  • Raleigh, NC, 27695
  • (virtual parking permits for the Oval West parking deck will be provided)

 

Nearby hotels:

The StateView Hotel (by Marriott), 2451 Alumni Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606 (on campus)

Aloft Raleigh, 2100 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607

TownePlace Suites Raleigh – University Area, 3771 Thistledown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Raleigh SW NC State, 3741 Thistledown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606

 

Sponsor:

FRP Institute

 

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