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Bamboo use in concrete wins Lethbridge College grads award

Three engineering technology grads from Lethbridge College have received an award for ingenuity and sustainability.

The Capstone Project of the Year Award comes from the Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta (ASET).

Tyson Baldrey, Allan Johnston, and Randy Holmberg received the award for their environmentally conscious exploration of bamboo as a viable alternative to using rebar in concrete construction projects.

ASET CEO Barry Cavanaugh says they are always awestruck by the incredible innovation and ingenuity of their Capstone winners and finalists. “The exceptional contribution these young people make our society because of the quality of the education they receive at polytechnics like Lethbridge College.”

The team explored various combinations of test materials before landing on using synthetic and/or organic polymers as an injectable to boost the structural characteristics of bamboo.

At the end of their project, the team determined that bamboo was indeed a viable alternative – with the caveat that testing was based on small scale loads and construction. They concluded that additional research was required to further develop the process of refining the bamboo for use in concrete and scaling research to analyze in larger load applications.

The Capstone Awards were introduced two years ago for engineering tech students at Lethbridge College, SAIT, NAIT, and Red Deer College.

(With files from ASET news release)

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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