The Concrete Centre is pleased to announce that the virtual Sustainability Series is back for 2021, following on from its success in 2020.
Over the coming months The Concrete Centre will run live online events, including breakfast briefings, seminars, and technical webinars along with providing a hub of useful resources including on-demand webinars, guidance, and research throughout the series.
Forthcoming Sustainability Series events:
- Decarbonising UK Concrete, 8th June, 12:00-12:45
- The built-in benefits of masonry homes, 14th June, 12:30-13:30
- Designing lower carbon concrete structures, 24th June, 12:30-13:30
For further information on each event, and details on how to book onto any of these events can be found here: www.concretecentre.com/events
Concrete Futures Lecture: Concrete innovation for renewable energy
9th June, 12:30-13:30
Decarbonising the UK’s electricity supply is fundamental to achieving net zero carbon commitments and increasing the availability of renewable energy forms a vital part of that commitment.
This Concrete Futures lecture will showcase innovations that have the potential to support the effective supply of zero carbon energy including wind, wave, gravity, and kinetic solutions. It also explores the use of concrete structure as a smart thermal store to help address the challenges of intermittent energy supply and improve its efficiency.
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| 12:30 | Welcome | |
| Elaine Toogood – Head of Architecture, The Concrete Centre
Elaine will provide a snapshot of numerous projects, design approaches and innovative concrete products that can help support the supply of renewable energy in the UK. |
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| 12:40 | CREATE (Concrete as a Technology Enabler) | |
| Karoline Lende – Chartered Engineer in the Advanced Digital Engineering group, Arup
This presentation will cover CREATE (Concrete as a Technology Enabler); a research project funded by Wave Energy Scotland, aiming to demonstrate that concrete can enable cost reduction in wave energy converters. Arup has developed structural designs of two floating concrete wave energy converters, demonstrating a reduction up to 20% in Levelised Cost of Energy. |
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| 13:00 | Energy Storage Towers | |
| Davide Zampini – Head of Global R&D, CEMEX
In this presentation Davide will explain the principles behind this new method of renewable energy production, and the innovation taking place in Cemex’s Research and Development centre to create new forms of concrete to ensure the right balance of cost, durability, and sustainability credentials. |
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| 13:20 | Q&A | |
| 13:30 | Close | |
Register here: https://www.concretecentre.com/CPD-Events/Events/Concrete-Innovation-for-Renewable-Energy.aspx