Rather than resembling a slab of sidewalk with oars, the canoe is sleek and finely sanded, 26 inches across at its widest point. It's made of a lightweight concrete, reinforced with fiberglass mesh, ...

She adds: “While many team members helped apply the concrete stain, Jon, Pat Raistrick and one of our alumni advisers, Allan Bassett, had the greatest impact on the canoe’s aesthetics. To my knowledge ...

Sun Staff Report LOWELL — Ashburnham resident Maureen Kelly was part of a team of UMass Lowell engineering students that placed eighth in the national Concrete Canoe Competition championships ...

They finished their canoe 28 days ago -- giving the concrete exactly its recommended curing time. Yesterday, teams from nine schools descended on Apponagansett Point Park to see if their canoes ...

A team of more than 20 civil engineering students at UMass Lowell has built a boat, not from steel or wood or fiberglass, but from concrete. The students are headed to the 28th annual Concrete ...

On Saturday, April 18, UMass Amherst will host the regional semifinal of the American Society of Civil Engineers' National Concrete Canoe Competition. For this competition, students design and ...

The University of Florida won the Concrete Canoe Competition, Georgia Tech took first place in Sustainable Solutions and Purdue University Northwest took home the prize in UESI Surveying. The team ...

LOWELL — Forget concrete jungles. It’s all about concrete marinas for a group of UMass Lowell students who loaded their 19-foot, 8-inch boat into a truck Monday morning, bound for an Am… ...

LOWELL — Forget concrete jungles. It’s all about concrete marinas for a group of UMass Lowell students who loaded their 19-foot, 8-inch boat into a truck Monday morning, bound for an Am… ...