Category: Safer Homes & Communities

In October 2024, a film crew from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) visited the University of Florida’s wind-hazard research facility as part of its investigation into the building and infrastructure failure in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria in 2017. 

As the demand for clean, high-efficiency energy grows, a research team led by Justin Watson, Ph.D., and Chris McDevitt, Ph.D., associate professors of nuclear engineering at the University of Florida, is exploring gas core nuclear reactors (GCRs). This next-generation reactor design could offer a safer and more efficient way to generate atomic power by replacing […]

One of the country’s largest and most-advanced 3D construction printers – as in a printer that makes homes – has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at the University of Florida.