Assistance program
Research Initiative on the Use of Steel Slag in Concrete and Cement
$5.0 Million committed in FY2025–FY2025
- Agency
- Office of the Secretary, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 20.949
- What it does
- The research study will advance the Decarbonization Research Priority and Embodied Carbon Research Priority as listed in the RD&T Strategic Plan: • Reduce carbon emissions associated with the extraction and manufacture of construction materials and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure. • Develop tools, technologies, and guidance to improve infrastructure durability, longevity, and sustainability through innovative materials and structures • Ensure research investments are fully leveraged through the demonstration and deployment of the resulting products and innovations
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible applicant must be an accredited university with capabilities in conducting advanced research, data analysis and mining, laboratory and field testing related to pavement and asphalt materials and have a good understanding of approaches and technologies and associated sciences of a scope that covers the requested services. Additionally, the incumbent must partner with a US steel manufacturer that produces steel slag materials. The recipient Eligible Entity (accredited university) will be the direct and primary recipient of the U.S. DOT funds and must perform a substantive role in carrying out the cooperative agreement activities; it may not serve primarily as a conduit for awards to another party.
- Authorized by
- House Appropriations Committee Report #117-402 accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 “Concrete Research --The Committee directs DOT to work with an accredited research university of higher education, in partnership with a producer of steel in the United States,…
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