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Nov 09, 2015
Dr. Liv Haselbach Featured as a Keynote Speaker at 57th Brazilian Conference on Concrete
Dr. Liv Haselbach was featured as a keynote speaker at the 57° Congresso Brasileiro do Concreto, the 57th Brazilian Conference on Concrete on October 28, 2015 in Bonito, Brazil. Her talk was entitled Pervious Concrete: Concrete Magic. The conference had nearly 1000 attendees.
She also presented two podium technical sessions on October 29, 2015 in the parallel 3rd International Conference on Best Practices for Concrete Pavements in Bonito, Brazil. The titles and authors of the two technical presentations and associated papers are as follows. All the co-authors are researchers and professors at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre (UFRGS), Brazil.
1: Field data for heat island mitigation by pervious concrete in Porto Alegre:By Alexandre Lorenzi, Liv Haselbach and Luiz Carlos Pinto da Silva Filho. This paper won the Best Paper Award for the conference.
2: A pervious concrete mix design based on clogging performance in Rio Grande do Sul: By Liv Haselbach, Vanessa Pasa Dutra, Paulete Schwetz and Luiz Carlos Pinto da Silva Filho.
Photo of Liv Haselbach, Vanessa Pasa Dutra and UFRGS colleague Angela Graeff at the 57th Brazilian Conference on Concrete in Bonito, Brazil.