ACI-CUET Chapter

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ACI-CUET Chapter

ACI-CUET Chapter is one of the major research and development organizations of CUET. It was established on December 5, 2018 by some innovative students and teachers. The opening of ACI Student Chapter at CUET has been approved on January 2nd,2019 by the American Concrete Institute. It's the first ever approval to a Public University of Bangladesh for opening the chapter. They conducted several higher-study seminars and their team 'Team CUETX' was the global 2nd Runners up in American Concrete Institute (ACI) presents Concrete Solutions Competition 2021.

To ensure an eco-friendly and more sustainable solution to it, CUETX, a team of eight students from the Civil Engineering Department of from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, (CUET), proposed a sustainable and cost-effective solution, and showed that it is possible to make concrete blocks using industrial, construction and demolition waste like fly ash, slag, and brick dust. They named the element made from these recycled materials Recycled Geopolymer Concrete Block. ACI-student chapter organized Intra-CUET Eco competition on 2021.