CEE Professor Receives Arthur J. Boase Award from American Concrete Institute Foundation
The research of Hani Nassif, a professor in the School of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and director of the Rutgers Infrastructure Monitoring and Evaluation (RIME) Group, has been recognized by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation’s 2025 Arthur J. Boase Award. The award memorializes former ACI chairman Arthur J. Boase, who led the creation of the Reinforced Concrete Research Council – today the Concrete Research Council – in 1948.
Nassif’s current research interests include the structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges and the use of advanced cementitious materials for infrastructure applications. He sees the Arthur J. Boase Award as an acknowledgement of his research success in developing and implementing various types of concrete technologies and researching their structural performance.
“It is a great honor to be recognized among the top awardees and achievers since its inception in 1971. I thank the ACI Foundation’s board of trustees and staff for recognizing my hard work and research achievements – which I owe to my students, collaborators, and the support of my family.”
The prestigious award was presented to Nassif by ACI President Michael Paul at the ACI Spring Concrete Convention in Toronto, Canada on March 31.The award citation specifically pays tribute to his “many contributions to the concrete industry in general, the use of structural concrete, and important advances in the use of cementitious composites and materials in concrete structures.”
Notably, these contributions include non-proprietary ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC), high performance concrete (HPC), self-consolidating concrete (SCC), and fiber-reinforced concretes (FRC). Supported by funding from the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), his team has also designed and field-tested a non-proprietary and low-shrinkage UHPC mix for concrete bridge deck overlays and closure pours.
He takes special pride in his work "advancing a new generation of cementitious and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites and pioneering reliability-based code calibration for safer and more sustainable concrete structures, as well as low carbon concrete (LCC) for self-sustaining oyster reefs and marine environments.”
An ACI Fellow since 2005, Nassif currently serves on several key ACI committees. He is also a past president of the ACI’s New Jersey Chapter, from which he received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018, and is a current member of its board of directors. He is currently a senior editor of the Journal of Construction and Building Materials and a section editor for the Journal of Bridge Engineering.
