Next Concrete Innovations Session Focuses on Mix Design Optimization

The next Concrete Innovations session, Mix Design Optimization, is scheduled for Wednesday, July 17, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern time. This session presents the concept of mix design optimization as one way to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint. The first presentation highlights the tremendous CO2 saving opportunities of reducing the total paste volume of concrete while simultaneously using high performance, low‐clinker cements. The second will present slag cement as an efficient, proven, low carbon, supplementary cementitious material that improves concrete performance while lowering carbon footprint. The third will present an EPD tool to conduct company and plant-level analytics that empowers concrete producers to navigate their EPD portfolio and assess plant performance and to get the right low carbon mix designs.

Topics and speakers include:

• Less Clinker in Cement, Less Paste in Concrete: A Two‐fold Strategy Towards Decarbonization - Franco Zunino, Physical Chemistry of Building Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Slag Cement, Today’s Strongest Carbon Reduction Tool - Larry Rowland, sustainability market manager, Heidelberg Materials
• EPD Advantage Pro™ - The first EPD Information Management System - Chris Erickson, CEO and co-founder, Climate Earth

Click here to register and visit www.concreteinnovations.com for session details. You may also contact Lionel Lemay at llemay@nrmca.org or 847-922-7995.