Material footprint: challenges and solutions
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Building Materials
On a global scale, the construction and building sectors are responsible for about 10% to 28% of greenhouse gas emissions, and about 5% to 30% of final energy consumption. The construction footprint is mainly attributed to concrete, which heavily uses carbonates and releases the residual CO2 into the atmosphere. That of buildings is mainly due to their phase of use.
Building materials are therefore another area in which we can play a major role in reducing resource consumption and the climate footprint of human activity. It is a question of making buildings more efficient in their management, but also in their production, of heat on the one hand, and energy on the other.
It is throughout the life cycle of a built system (building, infrastructure, etc.) that materials can help reduce its environmental impact: use of natural resources, construction proper (material, processes), use, maintenance and end of life. To do this, we need to optimize the performance and lifespan of these materials, produce them locally, in a biosourced way. Reuse or recycling, or responsible management of end-of-life waste, is also essential.
In this area, the three major challenges that the DIM aims to address are:
- Developping low carbon and recycled cement materials
- Make the entire life cycle of primary materials more virtuous for construction through the emergence of new solutions
- Improving thermal properties of building materials
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Research Platforms – SESAME FEDER
The Île de France Region launches the call for proposals “Research Platforms – SESAME FEDER”! This call aims to support, develop and create structuring equipment, such as [...]
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Understanding the degradation mechanisms of cement-based systems in combined chloride-sulfate attack
Chemical aggressions from the environment, such as salt ions, can damage reinforced concrete structures before they reach their service life. These deterioration mechanisms are coupled. The current [...]
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