To see a Short Video capturing highlights of the last (2019) face to face conference, click here.
For highlights of the 2014, 2015 and 2017 Conferences use this link.

About the Conference

The 2022 International Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference: Including Advanced Bridge Technologies will be a premier bridge engineering conference that is co-sponsored by 32 State DOTs, the Federal Highway Administration, and other bridge-related organizations. In 2022, the conference will also include topics related to advance technologies that affect all bridges, in addition to influencing the projects that uses Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC).

This Conference will also include keynote talks and technical presentations on Advanced Technologies that are transforming bridge engineering in general and ABC specifically. These technologies include automation and additive manufacturing (3D Printing) using concrete and steel, and advancements in UHPC. The 2022 conference will be held face-to-face on December 7-9, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Miami located in Miami, Florida. Several ABC workshops will be held on Wednesday, December 7 one day prior to the conference.

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To see a Short Video capturing highlights of the last (2019) face to face conference, click here.
For highlights of the 2014, 2015 and 2017 Conferences use this link.

About the Conference

The 2022 International Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference: Including Advanced Bridge Technologies will be a premier bridge engineering conference that is co-sponsored by 32 State DOTs, the Federal Highway Administration, and other bridge-related organizations. In 2022, the conference will also include topics related to advance technologies that affect all bridges, in addition to influencing the projects that uses Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC).

This Conference will also include keynote talks and technical presentations on Advanced Technologies that are transforming bridge engineering in general and ABC specifically. These technologies include automation and additive manufacturing (3D Printing) using concrete and steel, and advancements in UHPC. The 2022 conference will be held face-to-face on December 7-9, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Miami located in Miami, Florida. Several ABC workshops will be held on Wednesday, December 7 one day prior to the conference.

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To see a Short Video capturing highlights of the last (2019) face to face conference, click here.
For highlights of the 2014, 2015 and 2017 Conferences use this link.

About the Conference

The 2022 International Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference: Including Advanced Bridge Technologies will be a premier bridge engineering conference that is co-sponsored by 32 State DOTs, the Federal Highway Administration, and other bridge-related organizations. In 2022, the conference will also include topics related to advance technologies that affect all bridges, in addition to influencing the projects that uses Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC).

This Conference will also include keynote talks and technical presentations on Advanced Technologies that are transforming bridge engineering in general and ABC specifically. These technologies include automation and additive manufacturing (3D Printing) using concrete and steel, and advancements in UHPC. The 2022 conference will be held face-to-face on December 7-9, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Miami located in Miami, Florida. Several ABC workshops will be held on Wednesday, December 7 one day prior to the conference.

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Urban Watershed Hydrologic Characterization and Management through Data-Model Integration

by:

Kun Zhang | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Marquette University

EC 3930 | October 20, 2022 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Urban watersheds, as highly nonlinear dynamical systems, are “stressed” by ongoing urbanization, deteriorating water infrastructure, and climate change. More frequent, damaging, and costly floods and degraded water quality increases the need for a new paradigm for urban stormwater management. More advanced monitoring and modeling strategies are needed to better characterize hydrologic processes and implement water infrastructure in urban watersheds. In this talk, first, some efforts in characterizing the partitioning of infiltrated stormwater and investigating its impact on water balances in urban watersheds will be introduced. In these works, a physically-based model was developed to quantify inflow and infiltration (I/I) into sanitary sewers, and hydrograph-based analysis was performed to quantify the impact of I/I on urban water balances and flow regimes. Second, some ongoing efforts in predicting hydrologic and water quality signals across watersheds will be introduced. In these works, sparse sensing technique was utilized to predict high-frequency hydrologic and water quality time-series and optimize the sampling strategies by leveraging the latent low-dimensional features in the signals.

Dr. Kun Zhang is a Postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Marquette University. He obtained his Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong in Civil Engineering in 2020. Dr. Zhang’s research at Marquette is mostly focused on studying the hydrologic impacts of climate and urbanization stressors and exploring solutions to increase the resilience of urban water infrastructure. He integrated physically-based and data-driven models with data to simulate surface and subsurface hydrologic processes in urban watersheds and optimize the implementation of green-grey stormwater infrastructure.

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From the nanoworld to the community: A multifaceted approach to tackle environmental challenges

by:

Nefeli M. Bompoti | Assistant Research Professor

University of Connecticut

EC 3930 | October 17, 2022 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Contamination in natural and built environments is one of the major environmental challenges we are facing today, impacting the quality of life in many communities globally. From well-studied contaminants (e.g., heavy metals) to emerging ones (e.g., per and polyfluoroalkyl substances), several knowledge gaps still exist. Predicting contaminant fate and transport relies on understanding contaminant interactions with soil and mineral components and our ability to model those interactions through mathematical simulations. My research has focused on building state-of-the-art models for the description of solid-solution interactions incorporating thermodynamic phenomena.

As experienced by communities, environmental problems are often complex and involve multiple perspectives including social dimensions. Addressing the community’s needs and incorporating their vision is one of the key approaches to alleviating environmental injustice. In this seminar, I will demonstrate my research portfolio at a glance: from studies at the micro/nano-scale (i.e., modeling of contaminant interactions with soil components) to the policy level (i.e., building community resiliency against pollution threats). I will also delineate directions for future research on addressing complex multi-disciplinary problems and outline collaboration opportunities within and outside the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

Dr. Nefeli Bompoti is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Bompoti serves as the Project Manager of the University of Connecticut Technical Assistance for Brownfields Program EPA Region 1 where she assists communities with brownfield redevelopment projects in New England. Dr. Bompoti’s expertise is in environmental geochemistry, and her recent work has focused on environmental policy for building community resilience against environmental contamination. She received a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Connecticut, a M.Sc. in water resources science and technology and a Diploma in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

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Ali Ebrahimian, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2015 Civil and Environmental Engineering alebrahi@fiu.edu   Dr. Ali Ebrahimian has extensive academic and industrial experience in Water Resources Engineering and Management. His...