Infrastructure Innovation
Building the foundations for tomorrow.
The Best and Brightest
The PARI Infrastructure Innovation Lab (PIIL) staff has decades of collective experimental, computational, design and analysis experience. Our expertise assures consistent, effective results for complex projects in the advanced energy, defense and transportation infrastructure sectors. Our staff also supports creating structured financial strategies for large projects, especially in the field of nuclear power. The staff includes talented engineers and researchers with advanced degrees and a large cohort of capable graduate students who are pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees in civil, structural and mechanical engineering at Purdue.
FOUR SPECIALITY DIVISIONS
The Purdue Applied Research Institute’s Infrastructure and Innovation Laboratory (PIIL) creates, develops and supports innovative construction solutions that provide superior and resilient structural performance with optimized schedules and cost for nuclear, energy, defense and transportation projects.
PIIL uses Purdue University’s world-renowned Bowen Large Scale Structural Testing Laboratory and the Purdue Energetics Research Center for testing assemblies, benchmarking numerical models, nurturing new construction technologies, innovating design validation and supporting federal and state regulatory construction licensing.
Bridgeand Transportation Infrastructure Division (BTID)
BTID is founded on decades of real-world experience. Our team employs innovative engineering, testing and design practices to support new projects and determine end-of-life extensions to critical aging transportation assets within the United States. Our experts apply the latest research to solve individual or system-level problems in a way that is balanced with tried-and-true practices to ensure the most reliable long-term solutions.
Infrastructure Finance Division (IFD)
IFD supports U.S. initiatives for energy security by creating innovative economic practices and standards. Our team formulates advanced energy deployment strategies with minimum federal or state subsidies. IFD resources include Purdue University, key industry partners and experienced staff with more than 25 years of industrial development and energy finance experience. IFD has forged key industry alliances that allow our team exclusive access to industrial power users (off-take partners) and specialized finance opportunities that support deployment of advanced energy technology, including small modular and micro reactors.
InfrastructureSecurity and Defense Division (ISD)
ISDfocuses on improved design and construction of secured facilities andprotective structures using cost-effective modular design and constructiontechniques. ISD solutions reduce construction duration and field-laborrequirements while delivering superior structural performance through greaterstrength and ductility. Specific services and solutions include delay anddenial features (internal or security perimeter), protective structures,hardened structures for resisting missile and external blast loads, fixed orportable chambers for safe disposal of suspected explosive packages and more.
NuclearInfrastructure Division (NID)
NID provides comprehensive structural engineering and construction-related solutions for advanced light-water reactors (Gen III+), small modular reactors, advanced reactors (Gen IV), microreactors and fuel processing facilities. We develop innovative reactor-specific and reactor-agnostic solutions and perform the necessary research and development, especially in modular steel-plate composite construction and seismic isolation. This helps minimize overall plant costs and reduce the construction duration and field-labor requirements.
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