The question of how to achieve a sustainable built environment is time-critical with a focus on embodied emissions energizing efforts to decarbonize the material supply chain fast. Together, we must ‘bust the myth’ that concrete is hard to decarbonize, and champion the work of innovators and private sector pioneers getting ahead of legislation and leading in the development and adoption of lower embodied carbon concrete technologies.
This session will address issues including:
- What is the role of different actors in the concrete value chain in reducing the embodied carbon in concrete? And their role in deployment/implementation of new solutions?
- What role should policies and standards play in supporting the innovation and accelerating sector transition?
- How can cross-sector collaboration support the specification, purchase, and manufacture of lower embodied carbon concrete technologies at scale?
- Which promising lower embodied carbon concrete solutions are currently available to scale, and what do these need to deploy faster?
- How do we close the scalability gap?
- How fast can we move beyond the reliance on ground granulated blast furnace slag and ensure alternatives to lower embodied, and net zero, carbon concrete become a standard on all projects?
- What could block progressive action in the future and how can we navigate it?