Title: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Concrete Construction with Silica Fume

Author(s): Burroughs, Buhler, Khayat

Document Type: Online Learning

Date: September 12, 2024

Abstract:
This session will explain how silica fume lends to heightened sustainable and resilient construction. License design professionals, contractors, producers, and students will learn how silica fume lends to the overall lowered embodied carbon in structures. Topics will include extending service life through enhanced durability with silica fume, reducing member size in design when using silica fume concrete, increasing particle packing in concrete mixtures (SCC and HPC), and reducing water and cementitious material content when using silica fume in concrete pumping. In addition, case studies will exemplify the lowered embodied carbon and sustainable and resilient benefits to construction projects.