SESSION 25: LOW-CARBON CONCRETE STRATEGIES

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION FORM

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Action Steps Towards Low-Carbon Concrete

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Logan Kelley, Senior Associate, Mithun

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Concrete is both an invaluable tool for resilient and durable buildings, and the single greatest source embodied carbon in new construction.  To bring down the construction industry's global warming potential, designers, owners, and contractors must rethink the typical concrete specification process in order to achieve a balance of performance, cost, constructability, and embodied carbon. By championing collaboration and early goal setting, projects can achieve dramatic reductions in their global warming footprint utilizing appropriate specifications, new technologies, and local market realities. Join Logan Kelley from Mithun as he gives an overview of current strategies and case studies including the award winning 681 Florida Street affordable housing project in San Francisco.

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​Product Spotlight - Climate Earth​

The Next Era: EPD Information Management Systems

 

Chris Erickson, Climate Earth, President and CEO

 

Discover how to use EPD Information Management Systems to meet emerging low carbon requirements and strategically harness insights at the mix, plant, and company level.

• Gain new insights: Manage EPD data across all your plants for greater insight and improved decisions.

• Stay ahead of regulations: ACI 323 automated analysis and reporting.

• Optimize mix designs with Tarantula Curve mix optimization: In a single click, optimize strength, workability, and sustainability.

• Integrate with other systems: use API technology to integrate EPD data with all your systems.

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​Prologis Nexus: An Innovative and Sustainable Industrial Building

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Claudia Tarpin, Director of Development at Prologis and Alana Guzzetta, National Research Laboratory Manager at Vulcan Materials Company

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Prologis partnered with Central Concrete Supply (a Vulcan Materials Company), Whiting Turner, Bradley Concrete, and HSA Structural Engineers to create a state-of-the-art 260,000 sq ft, 40-ft clear height industrial building in San Leandro, CA. Prologis Nexus, is a very innovative and sustainable industrial building with embodied carbon emissions reduced by over 40% without relying on carbon credits. This presentation will discuss how the design and build team implemented low-carbon strategies to reduce embodied carbon from a traditional Prologis warehouse baseline.

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Product Spotlight - American Society of Concrete Contractors

Low-Carbon Concrete: Contractor Challenges and Opportunities

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Sarah Rege, Senior Sustainability Director and Eric Peterson, Director at Webcor

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New requirements and policies for low-carbon concrete are sometimes implemented without thorough consideration of potential coordination issues with other policies and practices that haven’t yet been modified for consistency. Significant changes in cementitious materials and methods of evaluation of these materials are making their way into marketplaces and material standards. Concrete contractors (and designers) must pay closer attention to these changes than they have in the past. For a concrete contractor, it is a time to participate in discussions with producers, governments, code-writing bodies, technical associations, materials suppliers, and contractors associations. Doing so will help ensure that the coordination and information transfer that must occur without disrupting our industry and its economics can be facilitated. The challenge is keeping communication channels open so everyone understands what needs to happen to appropriately facilitate and implement these industry changes. Information awareness and communication are the underlying messages of this presentation.

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