Month: September 2017

After working together for a full year, it was time for the Green INSTRUCT consortium to meet again, this time in Vienna, Austria. On the 20^th and 21^st September 2017 the meeting was held by alchemia nova at Impact Hub Vienna, a place which promotes entrepreneurship and innovation globally.

The Green INSTRUCT mission is to develop a prefabricated modular wall panel made from Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) (over 70% of net weight), which incorporates Green Wall technology for the treatment of grey & storm water and shows improved acoustic and thermal performance, multiple functionalities and reduced weight.

During the meeting each partner presented the advancements in their research, technical development and technological development as long as their plans for their future work. Moreover panel-prototypes of the prefabricated building block were provided by the technical partners to the consortium and extensive discussions were made on their further development.

The current key challenges for the Green INSTRUCT consortium which include the panels design for prototype buildings and for demonstration at the chosen sites were discussed. Additionally further discussion on the required panel sizes and production capacities were made. Before the end of the meeting, productive technical discussions on the product design and the demo sites took place, which resulted in valuable decisions.

The Green INSTRUCT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723825.

Green INSTRUCT participated in seminar hosted by Brunel University on Monday 18 September 2017. The seminar was led by Dr. Ir. Raymond Wan, the Technical Director of Optimix Group Limited, Hong Kong & Faculty member of Hong Kong Green Building Council on Green Materials.

The principal and underlying theme of the seminar was about recycling and recovery, carbon footprint reduction through green material technology and urging for more international collaboration. Dr. Ir. Wan introduced the current status of green building technology in Hong Kong, explained the various government green labelling schemes for construction materials and touched upon the governments lucrative incentive schemes for building green. The seminar also included preliminary results on alkali activation technology from waste stream developed for sewage structures.

The Green INSTRUCT project was presented to Dr. Ir. Wan who showed great interest on its objectives and technologies. Additionally, Dr. Ir. Wan was interested to remain informed about the findings and the results of the project.

The Green INSTRUCT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723825.

Green INSTRUCT participated in the 37th Cement & Concrete Science Conference which was hosted by the Advanced & Innovative Materials (AIM) Group at University College London (UCL) during the period 11^th – 12^th September, 2017.

The conference was jointly organized by:
Advanced & Innovative Materials (AIM) Group, University College London (UCL)
Cementitious Materials Group, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM³)

with support from:
The Institute of Concrete Technology (ICT), UK
Qingdao University of Technology (QTech), China
The Collaborative Innovation Centre for Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (ACEM), China

and gathered a high quality audience from both academia and industry.

The conference enabled academic as well as industrial scholars and practitioners to show their research on topics such as alternative cementitious materials and its application,  utilization of waste materials in cements and concretes,  low carbon technology related to cement and concrete.

Green INSTRUCT was represented by Brunel University which prepared an oral presentation on measuring the rheology of alkali-activated cements using non-traditional methods and also a poster presentation on the recycling of concrete for the production smart energy storing aggregates impregnated with PCM.

The Green INSTRUCT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723825.