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Name: Dr. Nemy Banthia
Year: 2017
Presented By: Peter Heppner of Preston Cadillac Langley
Bio:
In Honour of Your Extraordinary Achievements in Ground-breaking Research & Development
Dr. Nemkumar Banthia is a Professor of Civil Engineering, Distinguished University Scholar and a Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Dr. Banthia obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1987 on Impact Resistance of Concrete, and since then he has been actively pursuing research in the areas of cement-based and polymer-based fiber reinforced composites.
He has edited/co-edited fifteen volumes, published over 250 technical papers, and holds three international patents.
A professional engineer in the province of BC, Dr. Banthia serves on the technical committees of various professional societies including the American Concrete Institute where he chairs the committee on fiber reinforced concrete, RILEM where he chairs the Technical Committee on FRP-Concrete Bond, and the Canadian Standards Association where he chairs the Durability Committee of the Highway Bridge Design Code.
Dr. Banthia has received various honours and awards worldwide including the WG Hislop Award of the ACI-BC Chapter, four Best Paper Awards, and the Wason Medal from the American Concrete Institute.
More recently he was honoured by the British Columbia Innovation Council by its coveted Solutions Through Research Award and jointly by the Seoul National University and the Korea Concrete Institute by their Distinguished Researcher Award. Dr. Banthia is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, the Indian Concrete Institute and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
