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This presentation discusses employing rigorous laboratory testing and small-scale demonstrations to achieve success when using low carbon concrete in construction. Carbon reduction is achieved by reducing portland cement clinker in concrete, replacing it in the binder with alternative cements and/or supplementary cementitious materials and by reducing the total cementitious content in the concrete through aggregate optimization. This often results in concrete mixtures that behave differently than those traditionally provided by suppliers and placed by contractors. This presentation emphasizes the need to conduct rigorous laboratory testing to evaluate fresh and hardened concrete properties beyond traditional testing, paying special attention to workability, bleeding, setting, and thermal characteristics as well as early strength gain, shrinkage, and other hardened properties. The use of full-scale demonstrations are suggested to ensure that the means and methods of concrete production and construction are well-suited to placement of the low embodied carbon concrete to avoid surprises once construction begins.

This presentation reviewed the clinker, cement, concrete, construction, and carbon uptake stages and examined possible solutions within each. Discussion included the adoption of ASTM C595 blended cements beyond PLC, which includes Type IS (Slag Blended Cement), Type IP (Pozzolan Blended Cement), and Type IT (Ternary Blended Cement). The EPD process, local cement plant product-specific EPDs, as well as the newest cement PCR (published in July 2025), were discussed. Kayln encourages everyone that concrete’s GWP and its performance in the built environment can be positive.

ACI Code 323 was introduced in November of 2024 and is ready for adoption by authorities having jurisdiction in green building standards, as well as for incorporation into project-specific specifications.

In this presentation, Nathan Forrest PE, Technical Director at California Nevada Cement Association will briefly review the ACI 323 Code requirements and then walk through specific examples of how the code can be utilized on projects of varying size and scope.

In this presentation, Mary Christiansen, Ph.D., LEED AP, author of NEU’s The Low-Carbon Concrete Guide: Materials, highlights its key aspects and how it is beneficial. The guide examines concrete’s role in global carbon emissions, life-cycle thinking, and carbon quantification tools, as well as a full spectrum of binder-level strategies, including SCMs, mineral fillers, blended cements, low-carbon portland cements and alternative cements. It also introduces aggregate, reinforcement, and water-level pathways, along with supporting concepts such as mixture optimization and durability and advanced concrete technologies to illustrate how material choices interact with long-term performance.

The resource is designed to inform stakeholders about current market options and emerging and experimental technologies for decarbonizing the concrete industry through low-carbon materials.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a mission-critical technology in the roadmap to decarbonize the cement and concrete industries. In June 2025, Heidelberg Materials launched the first industrial-scale CCS project at the cement manufacturing facility in Brevik, Norway. This breakthrough technology is up and running now, allowing Heidelberg Materials to offer evoZero Carbon Captured Brevik, a high-quality carbon-captured cement enabling net-zero concrete. Once the CCS system at Brevik is fully optimized, Brevik is expected to capture 400,000 metric tons of CO2 for permanent storage per year. This presentation explains what makes Carbon Capture and Storage such a critical technology and how it can be used to reduce Scope 3 emissions for project teams.

CTS Cement is the leading manufacturer of calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA) cement in North America. Nick de Ocampo, Director of Sustainability at CTS Cement, will discuss the company’s history, development, and implementation of CSA cement throughout the years. The webinar will highlight the performance characteristics that make CSA cements an excellent choice for high-performance, long-lasting concrete solutions. Because of the increased performance, CSA cements enable resilient concrete pavements and structures and have lower embodied carbons than the industry standard as a result of the optimal manufacturing conditions utilized to create CSA cement. Finally, CTS Cement produces tens of thousands of tons of CSA cement annually making it an at-scale, market-ready product.