Articles by John Maxwell

Doctoral position at LMC

by 26 January 2023 in Announcements Comments are Disabled

Nowadays, Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) production is responsible for 5 – 10% of man-made CO2 footprint and this value is expected to keep increasing if solutions are not quickly adopted. One of the most effective strategies to reduce the environmental impact of concrete is to replace OPC with Supplementary Cementitious […]

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COP27 – LC3 to be showcased in Sharm El-Sheikh

by 2 November 2022 in Announcements Comments are Disabled

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

by 31 October 2022 in In the press Comments are Disabled

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

by 17 September 2022 in In the press Comments are Disabled

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

by 25 January 2022 in Announcements Comments are Disabled

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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