Investigación

“Blue Spaces for Recoleta”, is the name of the research carried out by Dr. Lucio Cañete Arratia (project director), from the Faculty of Technology; Enrique San Juan Urrutia, Victor Herrera Gonzalez, both from the Faculty of Engineering; and Rodrigo Vidal Rojas, current rector and professor of the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment. In this initiative, the academics of the Campus configured alternatives of free access water bodies (pools, fountains, tanks, etc.) present in the district of Recoleta. 

The project entitled “Advancing mass timber and precast concrete-timber building research by multi-physics and multi-scale engineering computations and large-scale experimental studies,” led by Erick Saavedra, was awarded an ANID Technology Ring with the potential for transforming the construction industry.

“We propose to research building, wood, concrete, and hybrid structures that mix the two. Today, construction in Chile is dominated by concrete, which is highly polluting,” stated the Civil Works Engineer.