You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. THE UNIVERSITY of Florida team carries its concrete canoe during the ...

Most people assume concrete automatically means sinking. But floating has less to do with weight and more to do with density.

When McCormick junior Vivian Reilly attended McCormick’s organization fair her freshman year, one booth caught her eye: Concrete Canoe. “I saw this tank of water with floating cylinders of concrete, ...

NEW ORLEANS — If you throw a block of concrete in a bayou, it will sink. So how is it that hundreds of engineering students from around the Southeast managed to not just build, but race canoes made of ...

This June the waters of Lake Sammamish will see sailboats, Jet Skis and a fleet of unconventional watercraft — concrete canoes. The University of Washington will host the American Society of Civil ...

Engineering students at University of Tennessee Chattanooga face an unusual challenge as part of their curriculum: make a ...

BYU has been chosen to compete in the American Society of Civil Engineers' National Concrete Canoe Competition for the second year in a row. They thought it was all over. After coming in second place ...

HOMER, Ill. — Does concrete float? For the hundreds of civil engineering students at the annual National Concrete Canoe Competition, the answer is “yes.” Teams representing 23 schools vied last week ...