Without any doubt, society owes a lot to concrete structures! They protect us, provide us comfort in living and working, enable mobility, etc. However, there is one aspect that can be improved, which is sustainability of concrete structures. The relatively large CO2 – emission and use of non-renewable natural sources is not good for our environment and is a burden for generations to come. The environmental footprint of structures is becoming an increasingly important issue in engineering practice. In future, projects will be granted also based on the contribution they make to reach sustainability requirements!
As students are the future – the international student contest on Sustainable COncrete COnstruction DEsign (S-CO2DE) is organized as part of the yearly fib Symposium which will be held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2017. The contest is organized by Delft University of Technology.
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We invite BSc, MSc and PhD students from universities, or those following higher professional and technical educations, to come up with elaborated ideas to improve the performance of concrete structures with respect to sustainability. The idea must be innovative, but can be on all possible aspects related to the application of concrete; for example, optimization and innovation in design, execution, manufacturing, material composition, exploitation, etc. As long as it improves sustainability of concrete structures, your proposal is very welcome! A jury of prominent people in infrastructural, building
and material design will judge the ideas.