Pouria Ghods and Aali Alizadeh’s path began at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, with a seminar organized by the local ACI Chapter on concrete technology followed by the announcement of the ACI High-Strength Concrete Cube Student Competition. They teamed up with a few classmates to participate in this event. Their first attempts in making high-strength concrete or even concrete itself were a mess. They watched as their early concrete mixtures failed to set, but with every setback came greater resolve. Mixing and testing in their lab, they sought the perfect concrete formula, at one point even hand-mixing the materials with aggregate they had sourced through a long road trip across Iran. After months of hard work, they emerged victorious with a winning formula in the national competition, securing their place at the ACI Concrete Convention – Fall 2000 in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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