Structure Sponsored Webinar
Advanced Materials and Smart Tools for Designing Next-Generation Structural Retrofit on Existing Concrete Building by MAPEI – Free STRUCTURE Sponsored Webinar
January 14, 2026 | Wed 12:00 America/Chicago
Duration: 1.0 Hour
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Aging buildings, congested infrastructure, and rising performance demands are increasing the need for reliable, efficient strengthening solutions. This presentation highlights a modern retrofit approach for reinforced concrete structures that combines high-performance FRP composites with thin UHPC overlays to boost flexural, shear, and confinement capacity with minimal thickness, rapid installation, and high durability. Built around an intuitive three-step framework—Assessment → Strengthening → Validation—the session reviews key design principles from ACI 440, 562, and 318 and introduces MAPEI Structural Design (MSD), a cloud-based tool for streamlined, code-aligned FRP and UHPC calculations. Real-world case studies, including UHPC column jacketing, FRP beam strengthening, and composite bridge girder rehabilitation, demonstrate design rationale, construction sequencing, and performance outcomes, offering engineers practical insight into delivering reliable, durable, and low-disruption retrofit solutions.
- There is no continuing education credit being provided for this webinar.
- This webinar will be recorded and made available on the STRUCTURE website.
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Aging buildings, congested infrastructure, and rising performance demands are increasing the need for reliable, efficient strengthening solutions. This presentation highlights a modern retrofit approach for reinforced concrete structures that combines high-performance FRP composites with thin UHPC overlays to boost flexural, shear, and confinement capacity with minimal thickness, rapid installation, and high durability. Built around an intuitive three-step framework—Assessment → Strengthening → Validation—the session reviews key design principles from ACI 440, 562, and 318 and introduces MAPEI Structural Design (MSD), a cloud-based tool for streamlined, code-aligned FRP and UHPC calculations. Real-world case studies, including UHPC column jacketing, FRP beam strengthening, and composite bridge girder rehabilitation, demonstrate design rationale, construction sequencing, and performance outcomes, offering engineers practical insight into delivering reliable, durable, and low-disruption retrofit solutions.
- There is no continuing education credit being provided for this webinar.
- This webinar will be recorded and made available on the STRUCTURE website.
Speaker:
Luca Albertario is a Regional Product Line Manager at MAPEI S.p.A., based in Milan, Italy, where he leads the Building & Structural Strengthening line for North and South America. He combines technical expertise with strategic support to help subsidiaries develop, validate and expand solutions for the restoration, protection and strengthening of existing structures. A civil engineer with a specialization in structural design, Luca has been with MAPEI since 2011. His work focuses on innovative composite systems for structural reinforcement, concrete repair technologies, and masonry rehabilitation solutions. He collaborates closely with local engineering and product management teams, providing consulting support for large-scale projects, guiding R&D initiatives, and overseeing the development of the MAPEI Structural Design software.
