Concrete Industry Calendar

Special Issue: Toward Concrete with Lower Global Warming Potential

October 23, 2024 to January 10, 2025

Sponsor(s): ACI Materials Journal

Description:
Concrete is the most widely used material in the world. Cement clinker, a main constituent of concrete, accounts for about 5-8% of CO2 emissions. To achieve more sustainable concrete mixtures, concrete is being designed to use less clinker through supplementary cementitious materials and admixtures. Innovative new alternate cements are being developed. Innovations are occurring in mixture proportioning procedures and with admixtures as well. Opportunities also exist to build more efficiently with improved quality control approaches that reduce overdesign. Innovations have also been proposed through carbon capture, improved energy efficiencies, and advancement of environmental product declarations, life cycle assessments, and sustainability assessments. This special issue of the ACI Materials Journal will discuss advancements in binder innovation, mixture proportioning, and documentation/prediction procedures and outline advancements to reduce the Global Warming Potentail of concrete. This will include papers that focus on practical issues in current production as well as potential formulations of the future. Please submit abstracts to Jason Weiss at jason.weiss@oregonstate.edu by January 10, 2025.

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