MAST research project
Title: Recycled Aggregate Concrete in South East Asia
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering
Grant scheme: Frontiers Champion
Aim: The project aims to bring together global research communities, policy makers, practitioners, innovators and social scientists to establish an interdisciplinary consortium to investigate the development of sustainable, durable, cost-effective, green concrete by utilising recycled aggregates in Southeast Asia.
Contact: Dr Boksun Kim
As a Frontiers Champion, Dr Kim has passion to improve the quality of life of people, in particular, in less developed countries. As part of two projects funded by the RAEng Frontiers of Engineering Seed Funding in 2016-17, she first visited Nelson Mandela University in South Africa to help to develop concentrating solar power technology for use in outlying communities in Africa. Second, she collaborated with a Nigerian community to build plastic bottle houses near Abuja. Furthermore, her mentoring of three Nigerian and one Indian Association of Commonwealth University Blue Charter fellows since 2018, as part of the Marine Plastics Research and Innovation Framework, has stimulated her to help more researchers in the global south. The champion is keen to engage with a network of a broad range of communities to enhance the quality of life in the global south by tackling global development challenges. She hopes to make genuine contribution.
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Contact us at recycledaggregateconcrete@plymouth.ac.uk for more information.