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 […]

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 […]

Registerations are now closed for the 2023 edition of the Doctoral School: Doctoral School 2023

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 […]

Due to the prolonged travel restrictions, it was decided to change the dates for the 4th International Conference on Calcined Clays for Sustainable Concrete in Beijing. The new dates are 25 – 27 April 2022. Please save the dates. Link to the conference website: CLICK HERE We hope that these […]

On 16 December 2020, we will have our first fully online LC3-Information Day in collaboration with INTERCEM. The highlight of this event are EXCLUSIVE first looks at the CIMPOR Global Holdings’ LC3 production projects in the Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Kribi, Cameroon. For all details of the program and registration, CLICK HERE

On 28 October at CemTech, Karen Scrivener will present the “Opportunities and challenges of manufacturing limestone calcined clay cement (LC3)” More information and registration here:  https://www.cemnet.com/Conference/Item/186346/advances-in-clinker-reduction-technologies.html

Cementos Argos started the production and distribution of “Cemento Verde” which is a LC3-composition. Their product reduces up to 38% of CO2-emissions as compared to OPC. The realisation of this project was conducted in collaboration with the LC3-project – Low Carbon Cement and Ecosur. Congratulations to achieving this milestone!