A warm congratulations to Ipek Bensu Manav for her successful PhD defense! Dr. Manav presented on “Assessing the Intersectional Risks Associated with the Full Life Cycle of the U.S. Housing Stock” before her doctoral committee last week.
We appreciate your hard work and look forward to seeing where your research takes you!
From presentations at ACI to our Fall Advisory Meeting, it has been an eventful month at the Hub! Some major updates:
Thank you to all who attended the November 1+2 Fall Advisory Meeting. We had great discussions and presentations on all things concrete, not to mention an excellent poster session inviting industry to engage directly with the researchers making our work possible.
We led eight presentations across diverse topic areas at ACI. Click the link below for more details.
We hosted academic and industry visitors from organizations like the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and Cemex México at MIT — thank you for the visit!
In this research brief by Johannes Kalliauer and Danial Amini, we explore a computationally inexpensive method to model urban flooding on different scales.
Thank you to everyone who attended our presentations at ACI. We had eight presentations covering diverse topics. We are looking forward to the next Concrete Convention in New Orleans! Please find the list of presentations below:
i. Randolph Kirchain, “Incorporating Climate Vulnerability into the Study of the Embodied Carbon of Buildings”
ii. Marcin Hajduczek, “Chemically induced pre-sure carbonation: A novel system for carbon sequestration in cementitious materials”
iii. Ipek Bensu Manav, “Exploring Opportunities for Building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to Inform Cement Scope 1-3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting” (Poster)
iv. Ariel Attias, “Statistical Physics for Quasi-Brittle Fracture”
v. Elizabeth Moore and Beth Unger, Ph.D, “Transforming the Role of the Concrete Delivery Professional: A Study on Innovative Solutions for the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry”
vi. Haoran Li, Ph.D, “Development of a streamlined framework for probabilistic and comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete pavements”
vii. Damian Stefaniuk, “Carbon-cement supercapacitors: A disruptive technology for renewable energy storage”
viii. Hessam AzariJafari, “Concrete Material Transparency: How Buy Clean Initiatives are Transforming Project Requirements”
“I think to make real progress in sustainability, materials scientists need to think in interdisciplinary, systems-level ways, but at a deep technical level,” said Prof. Elsa Olivetti, who recently began working with the CSHub.
Read the article to learn how Prof. Olivetti leans on MIT’s collaborative culture to work on complex climate resilience and mitigation issues.
Thank you to all who attended the November 1st and 2nd Fall Advisory Meeting. We had great discussions and presentations on all things concrete, not to mention an excellent poster session inviting industry to engage directly with the researchers making our work possible. Looking forward to the next Advisory Meeting!
A hearty thank you to the folks from organizations like the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and Cemex México who recently came to visit us at MIT. We had great presentations, discussions, and even a lab tour led by research scientist Damian Stefaniuk. We look forward to collaborating and staying in touch with you!
On October 26th, Hub alum Lucy Lyu provided an overview of CSHub research to assess the embodied and operational impacts of design decisions for equivalent structures.
Thank you to the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) for having us at their 2023 Conference! Randolph Kirchain, Gregory Norris, Ipek Bensu Manav, and Miaomiao Zhang gave presentations at this event last week in Burlington, VT.
CSHub is taking to the airwaves! At 4pm ET today, Franz-Josef Ulm and Admir Masic will be featured on G-town Radio to discuss the potential of carbon-cement supercapacitors to solve energy storage problems.
Click here to listen.
