from the laboratory to the field
About the conference
Was held from June 23 to 26, 2024 in Toulouse, France
Transition to low-carbon concrete
The purpose of this international conference is to present the latest available scientific and technical information in the field of supplementary cementitious materials and novel binders for use in concrete. The purpose of this edition is to highlight advances in the field of alternative and sustainable binders and supplementary cementitious materials, for which the research is growing in importance. Original papers on all aspects of pozzolans, mineral admixtures, standard and alternative supplementary cementitious materials are invited to be presented at the conference and be published in the proceedings.
Awardees
Jean Michel TORRENTI
PhD, professor at Ecole national des ponts et chaussées
Research director at ESITC Paris
Jean Michel Torrenti has forty years of experience in the mechanical behaviour and durability of concrete. His successive positions in engineering schools (Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées where is was dean of studies or ESITC Paris where he is actually research director), at the Gustave Eiffel University and in research centres have led him to carry out :
-research into the mechanical behaviour and durability of concrete structures (he has published around 100 papers and was director of 30 PhDs);
-research management (laboratory or research department management);
-expertise in the durability of engineering structures;
-standardization (he is involved in the writing of the next generation Eurocode 2 and of the French guidelines for low carbon concretes);
-and teaching at institutions such as the Ecole des ponts, where he is a professor.
Wolfram Schmidt
Wolfram Schmidt works at in the Department “Safety of Structures” at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), responsible for the rheology and admixtures laboratory with a research focus on particle-polymer-fluid interactions and innovative organic and mineral cement and concrete constituents. Furthermore, he is Secretary of the German Rheological Society, and Officer in the Development Advisory Committee and Bureau of RILEM, where he is also the Convenor for the sub-Saharan African region. He is founder of the Pan-African cement round robin (PACE-PTS) and initiator of the conference series “Advances in Cement and Concrete Technology in Africa” (ACCTA) and ISEE-Africa (Innovation, Science, Engineering, Education). With his colleague Kolawole Olonade (UNILAG) he received the German-African Innovation Incentive Award GAIIA for developing cementitious binders and chemical admixtures from wastes of cassava production.
Many of his research and educational projects such as KEYS, INFRACOST, Local-Care, and Circular B-I/O are focused on the potentials for more sustainable, circular urban construction technologies using local, environmentally friendly resources in Africa. In this context, he has recently initiated the Female Academic Leadership Network for Conscious Engineering and Science towards Sustainable Urbanisation (FALCONESS). He is also involved in a variety of activities related to sustainable construction, the most relevant of which is the GLOBE Global Consensus on Sustainability in the Built Environment.
He is Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Association universitaire de génie civil (AUGC), a member of the Scientific Council of ANDRA (national agency for the storage of radioactive wastes), a convenor of Commission 4 (materials) and a member of the Presidium of the fib (International Federation of Concrete) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fondation école française du béton.
Recently, he was director of the 3M€ national FastCarb project (fastcarb.fr), which brought together 23 partners and aimed to identify the mechanisms and conditions for accelerating the carbonation of concrete, intending to increase the amount of CO2 stored in Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCA) during a controlled industrial process, to turn them into Carbonated Recycled Concrete Aggregates (CRCA) and thus increase their use in new concretes.
Conference Committees
Conference Chair
Arezki Tagnit-Hamou
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC,
Honorary advisory committee
V. Mohan Malhotra Consultant, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Nelu Spiratos Prodexim International Inc., Brossard, QC, Canada
Local online organizing committee
Martin Cyr, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Arezki Tagnit-Hamou, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Cédric Patapy, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Richard Gagné, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Gabriel Samson, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Julie Hot, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Chantal Brien, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Aghiles Begriche, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Deep Tripathi, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Steering committee
Claude Bédard, Euclid Chemical, QC, Canada
Martin Cyr, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Benoit Fournier, Université Laval, Québec city, Canada
Richard Gagné, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Terence Holland , Concrete Terry LLC, OH, U.S.A
Kamal Khayat, Missouri U of Science & Technology, MO, U.S.A
Pierre-Claver Nkinamubanzi, NRC-CNRC, Canada
Charles Nmai, Master Builders Solutions Admixtures LLC, OH, USA
Arezki Tagnit-Hamou, Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
International scientific committee
Ahmed Loukili, École Centrale de Nantes, France
Alejandro Durán-Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
Ammar Yahia, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Antonio Telesca, Basilicata University, Italy
Caroline Talbot, Euclid Chemical, QC, Canada
Daman Panesar, University of Toronto, Canada
Dimitri Deneele, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Emmanuel Roziere, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Eric Garcia-Diaz, IMT Mines Alès, France
Fernando Martirena, Universidad Central de las Villas, Cuba
Fragkoulis Kanavaris, ARUP, UK
Francisca Puertas, IETcc-CSIC, Spain
Frank Winnefeld, EMPA, Switzerland
Harald Justnes, SINTEF, Norway
Jean-Martin Lessard, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
John Provis, University of Sheffield, UK
Josée Duchesne, Université Laval, Canada
Karen Scrivener, EPFL, Switzerland
Kimberley Kurtis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Konstantin Sobolev, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Loïc Divet, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Luca Sorelli, Université Laval, Canada
Luigi Coppola, UNIBG, Bergamo, Italy
Maria Juenger, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Marta Palacios, Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja (IETcc-CSIC), Spain
Masoud Hosseinpoor, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Mohamed Bassuoni, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Mohammed Sonebi, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
Ousmane Ahmat Hisseine, McMaster University, Canada
Prannoy Suraneni, University of Miami, USA
R. Douglas Hooton, University of Toronto, Canada
Siham Kamali-Bernard, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA-Rennes), France
Rachida Idir, CEREMA, France
Robert J. Flatt, ETHZ, Switzerland
Thomas Matschei, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Vlastimil Bilek, VSB, Czech Republic
William Wilson, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Wolfram Schmidt, BAM Berlin, Germany
2024 edition's sponsors
