CORE MATERIALS: Better Concrete, Better Steel
Concrete and Steel alone are responsible for approximately 20% of global annual carbon emissions. What innovations in concrete and steel allow for lower-carbon materials now, and what innovations are down the pipeline?
September 8, 2020 // North & South America
Frances Yang, Arup
Frances Yang shares insight on why concrete is carbon-intensive, and how Arup is reducing the embodied carbon of concrete in practice through both structural optimization and specification.
Margaret Hansbrough, Mighty Earth
Margaret Hansbrough shares insight on why steel is carbon-intensive, the two different manufacturing processes, and how to reduce the embodied carbon of steel, with a focus on the North and South America markets. She also shared the work Mighty Earth is doing in decarbonizing the steel industry.
September 17, 2020 // Europe, Middle East & Africa
Catherine De Wolf, TU Delft
Catherine De Wolf shared insights from the “A Sustainable Future for the European Cement and Concrete Industry,” a report she co-authored recently that identifies pathways for full decarbonization of the concrete industry by 2050, with insight on how to reduce the embodied carbon of concrete today through design and specification.
Matthew Wenban-Smith, Responsible Steel
Matthew Wenban-Smith highlighted the opportunities in the steel industry for decarbonization, including both what designers can do to specify low carbon steel, as well as what Responsible Steel is doing to decarbonize the Steel Industry.
September 22, 2020 // Asia, Asia Pacific & Oceania
Dr. Fangjie (Sam) Chen, Arup
Dr. Sam Chen highlighted why concrete is carbon-intensive, and offered suggestions for opportunities to reduce that through design and specification.
Margaret Hansbrough, Mighty Earth
Margaret Hansbrough shares insight on why steel is carbon-intensive, the two different manufacturing processes, and how to reduce the embodied carbon of steel, with a focus on the Asia, Asia Pacific and Oceania markets. She also shared the work Mighty Earth is doing in decarbonizing the steel industry.
核心材料:更好的混凝土和更好的钢材
仅混凝土和钢材就造成了全球每年约 20% 的碳排放。现在有哪些混凝土和钢材的创新实现低 碳材料,还有哪些创新正在发展中?
September 22, 2020 // Asia, Asia Pacific & Oceania
Dr. Fangjie (Sam) Chen, Arup
Margaret Hansbrough, Mighty Earth