This course starts with a review of safety procedures associated with cement and concrete and the protective gear needed for safe handling. It explains the environmental impact of carbon emissions related to concrete production and reports on the industry’s Roadmap to Net Zero Concrete. Attendees will learn the benefits of using ash in concrete and the difference between “fresh” or production ash with harvested material and review various beneficiation techniques being used to transform non-specification coal ash into high-quality SCM’s. It will include a discussion of the Thermal Beneficiation process and how this technology supports the circular economy and enables Low Carbon Concrete mixes. Commercial scale Net Zero Concrete will ultimately only be possible through the use of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) strategies. This course will explain how the most viable of these technologies will be used to provide full scale cement decarbonation and concrete mixes with net zero embodied carbon without offsets. It will walk through the technology that makes this possible and how the carbon savings afforded by CCUS are represented in Life Cycle Inventories to achieve Net Zero embodied carbon concrete mixes. Specifiers and designers will be given details for their role in decarbonating future concrete construction and what they and other stakeholders can do to promote these technologies.

Presented by various experts on behalf of Heidelberg Materials.