Articles by: John Maxwell

COP27 – LC3 to be showcased in Sharm El-Sheikh

The event “LC3: a revolutionary low CO2 building material” will take place at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt on the 8th November. The Swiss State Secretary for International Finance, a representative of the Indian government and Prof. Karen Scrivener will all be presenting. Find out more […]

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Concrete – a game changer in climate technology

Tough stuff – that suits her. Karen Scrivener is a renowned expert on the world’s most widely used building materials: concrete and cement. But cement as a binding agent has fallen into disrepute as a “climate killer”. The professor disagrees. The head of the Laboratory for Building Materials at EPFL’s […]

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Warum grauer Beton so schillernd ist

Karen Scrivener, Leiterin des Labors für Baumaterialien an der EPFL in Lausanne, forscht über Baustoffe, die unser Leben prägen und es bald nachhaltig verbessern sollen – was noch nicht der Fall ist. Ursprünglich veröffentlicht in der NZZ Knallharte Materie – das liegt ihr. Karen Scrivener ist eine renommierte Exper­ tin […]

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Calcined Clays for Sutainable Concrete 2022

EPFL is hosting the International Conference: “Calcined Clays for Sutainable Concrete 2022” from 05 to 07 July 2022 at the Swisstech, Lausanne. After our last large international conference in Delhi in 2019, we are now very excited to invite you to our conference in Switzerland. Early bird registration is still […]

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