The Innovandi Global Cement and Concrete Research Network (GCCRN) is convening its Spring Week from March 17-21 in Panama City, Panama. The pivotal event unites industrial and academic partners worldwide to advance research and innovation in sustainable cement and concrete technologies.
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A new low-cost, scalable approach demonstrated at the University of Michigan could neutralize the most carbon-heavy step in cement production without changing the manufacturing process, according to a study recently published in Energy & Environmental Science.
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Virginia Tech is partnering with the only cement plant in Virginia – Roanoke Cement Co. in Botetourt County – to study the feasibility of a regional carbon dioxide storage complex in the Roanoke Valley.
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Researchers from UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management have developed a new method that could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in cement production and, potentially, other industries.
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Rutgers University’s Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) received a five-year, $5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate the use of steel slag in cement and concrete.
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A Purdue University Civil Engineering Department team reported promising early test results from a method mineralizing the carbon dioxide gas in cement production or other industrial process emissions.
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Researchers at Princeton University have created a new cement composite that is 17 times more crack-resistant than standard cement and 19 times more able to stretch and deform without breaking, the researchers say.
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University of Cambridge researchers have developed a method to reclinker recovered cement paste embedded in used concrete that can then be used to produce zero emissions cement.
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To coincide with the annual Spring Week gathering in Switzerland, the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) launched a new online library of Innovandi Global Cement and Concrete Research Network (GCCRN) projects to provide transparent tracking of research progress.
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Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst received a four-year, $3 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Future Manufacturing Program to make cement manufacturing more sustainable.
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