{"id":27628,"date":"2023-01-10T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/?p=27628"},"modified":"2023-01-12T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T09:47:06","slug":"cu-switzerland-congratulates-bridge-and-cfrp-pioneer-urs-meier-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/cu-switzerland-congratulates-bridge-and-cfrp-pioneer-urs-meier-on-his-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"CU Switzerland congratulates Bridge and CFRP pioneer Urs Meier on his birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urs Meier is the former director of Empa&#8217;s D\u00fcbendorf site. Through his research and developments, he has contributed significantly to the realisation of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) in the construction industry. He turned 80 on 8 January &#8211; we congratulate Urs Meier warmly and thank him for his tireless commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.admin.ch\/gov\/en\/start\/documentation\/media-releases.msg-id-92446.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> about his achievements, his awards and where he is still actively involved today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27629\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27629 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/74802_ursmeier-empa-Kopie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/74802_ursmeier-empa-Kopie.jpg 600w, https:\/\/composites-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/74802_ursmeier-empa-Kopie-177x300.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CFRP pioneer Urs Meier (right) received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 18th European Bridge Conference 2022 in Edinburgh. The award was presented by Lord Provost Robert Aldridge (Empa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urs Meier is the former director of Empa&#8217;s D\u00fcbendorf site. Through his research and developments, he has contributed significantly to the realisation of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) in the construction industry. He turned 80 on 8 January &#8211; we congratulate Urs Meier warmly and thank him for his tireless commitment. &nbsp; Read more about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[314],"main-cat":[35],"bildung":[],"forschungs-cat":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27633,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27628\/revisions\/27633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27628"},{"taxonomy":"maincategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/main-cat?post=27628"},{"taxonomy":"bildung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bildung?post=27628"},{"taxonomy":"forschung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forschungs-cat?post=27628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}