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Concrete Futures: saving carbon now is a day of seminars that explores key themes around carbon and how efficient decisions and design can make savings now and into the future. The three sessions are: low carbon concrete; efficient design and construction; and roadmap in action.
Concrete Futures at Futurebuild 2022: Low Carbon Concrete
2nd March 2022, South Gallery Rooms 7 & 8, 10:00-12:00
This session considers the development, availability, and use of lower carbon concretes in the UK. It will provide an overview of evolving standards, sources of environmental product data and recent design and specification guidance. More Info
Concrete Futures at Futurebuild 2022: Efficient Design and Construction
2nd March 2022, South Gallery Rooms 7 & 8, 12:00-13:30
This session will go through some of the recent studies of embodied carbon of different structural systems that show that the choice of grid, loading and structural system can make a difference in the embodied carbon of up to 50% without changing the concrete mix. More Info
Concrete Futures at Futurebuild 2022: Roadmap in Action
2nd March 2022, South Gallery Rooms 7 & 8, 13:30-15:00
In this session we introduce the technical and behavioural enablers/levers that feature in the UK, European and Global sector decarbonisation roadmaps. Presentations will share exciting updates on the trials and potential of net zero fuels, and the global research and investment in carbon capture. More Info
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