The built environment relies heavily on energy and resource-intensive materials such as cement and concrete. Emerging materials and technologies offer opportunities to improve efficiency and durability while reducing life-cycle costs, with the goal of achieving sustainability and resilience in the built environment. Realizing these opportunities requires identifying, understanding, and solving the real-world challenges, questions, and uncertainties faced across the entire value chain including designers, producers, contractors, and owners.
Join us at this informative summit where researchers will report on ways to scale implementation of emerging materials and technology while meeting resilience, durability, efficiency, and performance requirements for concrete infrastructure. Industry participants will also share examples of how they are applying these findings to real-world challenges in concrete construction. Although the investigation centered on pavement infrastructure, the findings can be applied broadly across many types of concrete construction.
Moderators:
- Doug Hooton, University of Toronto
- Sabbie MIller, University of California Davis
- Jan Olek, Purdue University
Hosting Organizations:
- Kerry Sutton, ACI's Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete
- Ann Masek, ACI Foundation
Research Findings:
- Somayeh Nassiri, University of California Davis
- John Harvey, University of California Davis
Case Studies by Governmental and Private Project Owners:
- (Alan) Chiu Tam, City of Los Angeles
- Richard Mulcahy, MassDOT Research and Materials Laboratory
Case Studies by Concrete Producers and Contractors:
- Nathan Forrest, California Nevada Cement Association
- James Mack, Wiss Janney Elstner Assoc. Inc.
Case Studies by Cement, Alternative Cements, SCMs, and Admixture Producers:
- Rob Shogren, Amrize,
- Rudy Wiechert, Imerys
Closing Remarks:
- Michael Schneider, Michael Schneider Consulting, LLC