Terre Armee Group/Reinforced Earth Co. (TA/RECo) has secured exclusive marketing and distribution rights for the patented composite-arch-bridge technology, popularly known as “bridge in a backpack.” ...

In Maine, contractors are “blowing up” bridges: They are inflating hollow carbon-fiber tubes on-site, bending them into arches and infusing them with resin. Filled with concrete, the bridges are ready ...

The “bridge in a backpack,” a composites bridge developed by the University of Maine, received a key approval from a national transportation nonprofit that could advance efforts to expand its ...

Construction is under way on Maine’s seventh — largest — high-tech bridge, replacing standard concrete and steel construction with a lightweight and portable carbon-fiber tube structure. The new ...

ORONO, Maine — The “Bridge-in-a-Backpack” technology developed at the University of Maine and licensed to an Orono startup company has received a key approval that could speed its commercial adoption.

Habib Dagher, executive executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, speaks at Thursday's announcement in Orono that UMaine's Bridge-in-a-Backpack ...

SNAPSHOT: Three-year R&D collaboration led by HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering has demonstrated a pultrusion-SMC bonding method that eliminates separate joining hardware and reduces weight by 20% versus ...

PITTSFIELD, Maine -- The latest in bridge-construction technology goes unnoticed by drivers zipping over a two-lane highway that carves through the countryside of central Maine. The 35-foot-long Neal ...