KICT 한국건설기술연구원

On April 15, the KICT and the Defense Installations Agency concluded an MOU on the development of defense technology using super concrete in the Ministry of National Defense building located in Seoul’s Yongsan District.

The agreement ceremony was attended by representatives of the two signatories, including KICT President Kim Byung-suk and Defense Installations Agency Director Cho Byung-yoon.

The KICT and the Defense Installations Agency held a joint seminar on the development of defense facilities in 2022 and a technical meeting in 2023, two milestones in their collaboration in applying construction technology to national defense. The new partnership agreement will see the KICT combine its super concrete technology with the Defense Installations Agency’s facility construction and management expertise.

KICT’s super concrete has five times the performance of regular concrete in compression strength (200 MPa), and four times the performance in durability (200 years), and also makes it possible to reduce carbon emissions by 40% to 50% and construction costs by about 10%. The super concrete technology has been named both one of the top 100 national R&D achievements and one of the top 3 technologies created by government-funded research institutes.