ASCE Awards First Green Pipe Innovation Award
The world's first sustainable pipe, designed by QuakeWrap Inc., a Tucson, AZ-based designer, supplier and installer of FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer) products, won an American Society of Civil Engineers Innovation Award in the category "Best Value -- Green Engineering."
According to the inventor, Dr. Mo Ehsani, a Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, the walls of the new pipe , called StifPipe, consist of a lightweight honeycomb core covered with carbon or glass FRP. He says that the pipe can be easily manufactured to any shape or size, and weighs about 10% less than traditional pipes. The FRP material, said Ehsani, is a technique that "has been successfully used in aerospace and ship-building industries for decades."
This new breakthrough in pipe and ...