National Geopolymer Concrete Competition 2015 By Naviin Balasubramaniam (Petroleum Engineering, 2nd Year/2nd Semester)

National Geopolymer Concrete Competition 2015

              By Naviin Balasubramaniam (Petroleum Engineering, 2^nd Year/2^nd Semester)

 Multipurpose Hall, 20th-22^nd November 2015-National Geopolymer Concrete Competition 2015 is an event organized by the Civil Engineering Students Society (UCITY) in collaboration with Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM) and Malaysian Geopolymer Society for the second time. This event was officiated by Dr. Noor Amila Bt Wan Abdullah Zawawi, the Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) and sponsored by SUREMOR UTP. The main objective of this event is to encourage students and researches to creatively and technically produce a competitive geopolymer concrete design with high early strength. Other than that, this event provides a platform to create a link among students, researchers and geopolymer concrete industry. Students from many other universities apart from UTP, namely Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) actively participated in this competition. There were also other activities such as talk shows and BBQ dinner to entertain the participants throughout the three days and lastly, winners of respective categories were announced during the closing ceremony at MPH.

List of Winners

CHAMPION: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) 
1st RUNNER UP: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
2nd RUNNER UP: Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
BEST POSTER AWARD: Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
MOST CONSISTENT STRENGTH AWARD: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

Champion of National Geopolymer Concrete Competition 2015 from Universiti Teknologi 

Malaysia (UTM)

Speech by Project Director, Nur Heiyqal Hidayat Bin Rosli

(Civil Engineering, 2nd year/2^nd semester)