Midcember Update

Today's attendance: Ali Rehemtulla, Alan Fody, Greg Scott, Aga Sidarta, Pat Perhosky, Nicholas Simmons
Work: Aggregate Testing

This falls been full of trials and tribulations for Concrete Canoe, but things are moving along and looking well. It's been a tough transition to new project managers seeing that the Kyle Rutherford regime has come to an end. I can't say enough good things about him now that I've got a share of the lead and realize there's just far too much to do for one person, especially in senior year at Drexel University. This year Patrick Perhosky and myself, Greg Scott are partners as Project Managers.

So far this fall it's been all networking on my part, hunting down materials and designs and sponsors. Pat's been the wizard behind the curtain concocting up secret concrete mixes that will blow your mind, or at least hurt your toe if you drop a cylinder.

This year is all about being Green, with the ideal being something near LEED approval. That, of course, is competition wide. Concrete by nature is not environmentally friendly, as our advisor Dr. Martin explained in class a few weeks ago, "The art of making concrete is essentially taking cement and boiling the CO2 out and bam, a man made rock." I'm afraid I have to keep many details close to the vest in fears of our rival schools. But I will say that between bicycles and recycled concrete ingredients, we've got a good thing going on.


Greg