The American Concrete Institute announced the winners of its 2015 ACI Pervious Concrete Student Competition. The competition took place at The Concrete Convention and Exposition in Denver, Colorado. The first, second and third place in the Cylinder Performance, and Cementitious Efficiency categories each received cash awards of $750, $500 and $250, respectively.
Teams were challenged to apply sustainability concepts and to use their knowledge of concrete mixture design by producing pervious concrete that balanced permeability and splitting tensile strength. Teams were additionally challenged to develop a mixture design that demonstrated cementitious efficiency; that is, maintaining the overall performance of the mixture with the lowest amount of cementitious material.
Cylinder Performance
1st Place: Ryerson University: Marzia A.C. Fada, Keikhosrow Tahmureszadeh
Faculty Advisor – Dr. Medhat Shehata
2nd Place: FES Aragon Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico: Balderas Rodríguez Miguel Ángel, Badillo Díaz, Daniel Jocsan, Sánchez Ochoa Javier
Faculty Advisor – Jose Paulo Mejorada Mota
3rd Place: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Unidad Azcapotzalco: Leiding Guadalupe García Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos Trejo Juárez, Luis Angel Quirino Flores, Abel Toledo Candia
Faculty Advisor – Dr. Francisco González Díaz
Cementitious Efficiency
1st Place: University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez: Silvia T. Esteves, Wilfredo X. Guilloty Rivera, Ninoshka Y Crespo Roman, Cristian O. Soto Torres, Maribel A. Turner Ríos
Faculty Advisor – Arsenio Cáceres
2nd Place: University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez: Andrés Matos Ortiz, Karimar Rodríguez Serrano, Nahima Z. Ortiz Ayala, Gabriel A. Díaz Ríos, Yasser E. Ortiz Rodríguez
Faculty Advisor – Arsenio Cáceres
3rd Place: Valparaiso University: Atolo Tuinukuafe, Trent Schreiber, Benjamin Oelschlaeger, Edward Breitzke
Faculty Advisor – Jacob Henschen
