SCHEDULE

All times are shown in Eastern U.S. Time. Click here to see other times zones. Sessions will be recorded for later viewing.

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Receive up to 16 AIA LU or 16 Professional Development Hours if you attend all the sessions.

MONDAY, November 30

8:00 - Virtual conference venue opens

 

  • Check-in and orientation

  • Expo hall opens for 24 hours per day (primetimes shown below)

 

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Opening Keynote Session

 

  • Ed Mazria, Architecture 2030 (USA): RESET! The Road to Zero Carbon

  • Dr. Andrew Minson, Global Cement and Concrete Association (United Kingdom): 2050 Carbon Reduction Ambitions

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

 

11:30-12:30 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Brendan Owens, US Green Building Council (USA): The Future of LEED and Carbon Reduction

  • Dr. Sui Tongbo, Professor, Director General, Sinoma Research Institute (China): Progress of Low Carbon Cement in China

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

TUESDAY, December 1

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Lionel Lemay, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (USA): The Top 10 Ways to Reduce Concrete’s Carbon Footprint

  • Dr. Chris Drew, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill (USA): Low Carbon Concrete Building Design

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

 

11:30-12:30 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Ryan Cialdella, Ozinga (USA): Research on Low Carbon Concrete

  • Jennifer Mitchell, LinkedIn (USA): Carbon Reduction Goals at LinkedIn

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

WEDNESDAY, December 2

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Rick Bohan, Portland Cement Association (USA): Carbon Capture at the Cement Plant: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Dr. Agnieszka J. Klemm, Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland): Towards More Sustainable Construction – Application of Superabsorbent Polymers in Cementitious Matrices with Reduced Carbon Footprint

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

 

11:30-12:30 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Dr. Colin Lobo, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (USA): Impact of Specifications and Quality on Concrete’s Carbon Footprint

  • TBD: Concrete Technology

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

THURSDAY, December 3

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Lindsay Rasmussen, Architecture 2030 (USA): Architecture 2030 Palette

  • Stacy Smedley, Skanska (USA): Building Transparency and the EC3 Tool

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

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11:30-12:30 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Dirk Kestner, Walter P Moore (USA): Whole Building LCA

  • Michael Watson, First Graphene (United Kingdom): Influence of Pristine Graphene Particle Sizes on Physicochemical, Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Portland Cement Mortars

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

MONDAY, December 7

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Martha Herrera Gonzalez, ARISE/CEMEX (Mexico): Disaster Resilient Communities

  • Aris Papadopoulos, Resilience Action Fund/Florida International University (USA): Resilience – The Ultimate Sustainability

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

 

11:30-12:30 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Dr. Jeremy Gregory, MIT (USA): The Importance of a Life Cycle Perspective in Evaluating Building Resilience

  • Evan Reis, US Resiliency Council (USA): Designing Resilient Structures

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

TUESDAY, December 8

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Dr. Michael Lepech, Stanford University (USA): Durability Modeling of Reinforced Concrete

  • Don Davies, Magnusson Klemencic Associates (USA): Lighten Up! – Lowering Embodied Carbon in Concrete Design and Construction.

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

 

11:30-12:30 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Dr. Behzad Nematollahi, Swinburne University of Technology (Australia): 3D Printing Concrete Structures

  • Ian Riley, World Cement Association (United Kingdom): Climate Change and the Cement & Concrete Industry Response, World Cement Association initiatives

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

WEDNESDAY, December 9

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Dr. Franz Ulm, MIT (USA): Using Molecular Modeling to Design for Resilience

  • Jamie Farny, Portland Cement Association (USA): Embracing the Use of Blended Cements to Reduce Concrete’s Carbon Footprint

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

 

11:30-12:30 - Technical Presentations

 

  • Dr. Olafur Wallevik, Reykjavik University (Iceland): Advances in Self-Consolidating Concrete

  • Dr. James Aldred, University of New South Wales (Australia): Assessment and Mitigation of Microbially Induced Corrosion of Concrete

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

THURSDAY, December 10

9:00-10:00 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

10:00-11:00 - Technical Presentations

 

  • TBD: Concrete Technology

  • TBD: Concrete Technology

 

11:00-11:30 - Platinum Sponsor Private Meetings

 

11:30-12:30 - Panel Discussion on Carbon Reduction Policies

 

12:30-13:30 - Expo Hall Primetime

 

15:00 - Virtual Conference and Expo Hall Closes

OTHER TIME ZONES

 

All times are listed in USA Eastern Standard Time (New York, USA). Most sessions start at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Times in other locations are listed below.

 

  • Los Angeles, USA - 7:00 PST

  • Chicago, USA - 9:00 CST

  • New York, USA - 10:00 EST    

  • London, United Kingdom - 15:00 GMT      

  • Berlin, Germany - 16:00 CET

  • Cairo, Egypt - 17:00 EET

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 19:00 GST

  • Mumbai, India - 20:30 IST

  • Beijing, China - 23:00 CST

  • Tokyo, Japan - 23:59 midn JST

  • Melbourne, Australia - 2:00 AEDT + 1 day

 

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