Concrete researcher wins fellowship

27 April 2009

Rachel Muigai

Rachel Muigai, civil engineering researcher at UCT's Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (EBE), has received a R300 000 scholarship from the Cement and Concrete Institute.

The institute's Sustainable Concrete Research Fellowship for 2008 was awarded to Muigai for her PhD proposal on research into the contribution of recycled materials on the environmental performance of concrete.

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