Today 25 MECLA collaborators toured the different material innovation labs at UNSW, including the infrastructure lab, the asphalt lab and the heavy structures lab. MECLA is all about systems change. Innovation in material use is a crucial part of that change, and UNSW Engineering had it on display in full today. There were some awesome quickfire presentations giving us a flavour of contemporary research in the university by Ali Kashani on 3D printing concrete in construction, Wenkui Dong on nanotechnology applications for concrete sustainability, Ailar Hajimohammadi on the use of waste in concrete, Taehwon Kim on the beneficiation of mine tailings, Ehab Hamed on insulating switch panels, and Hamid Valipour on combining timber and steel for reinforced strength. It's impossible to recap the sheer breadth of research MECLA members learned about today. A truly incredible experience. Hopefully further collaborations are born from some of them! Thank you to Hamid Valipour and UNSW for hosting us!
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