Healing the Pavement on Campus

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Project Basics

Project Sponsor: Capitol Projects; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Amount Awarded: $16,100

Grant Awarded: Spring 2021

Project Status: Complete

Project Description 

Recycling concrete offers a sustainable path for pavement maintenance. Massive concrete wastes are generated in the civil and environmental engineering (CEE) structural laboratory every year because of undergraduate education and scientific research demand. The existing waste concrete disposal such as “landfill” is expensive ($400/ton) and unsustainable. This project aims at wasted concrete recycling for campus infrastructure repairing, mainly focusing on the maintenance of cracked pavements, to fulfill a win-win situation for both the CEE department and Berkeley Facility Service.

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