报告人Speaker

Prof.Theodore Hanein

University of Leeds

报告主题 Topic

Closing the concrete loop: beyond 2050

报告时间与地点Time and Venue:

2024年9月14日 (周六) ，9：45am-11:45am

结构楼建工系会议室420

主持人Chair：池寅

报告摘要Abstract

Concrete, as a building material, like other building materials made from natural resources, should be sourced locally, for the benefit of the local people. To achieve a truly circular economy in the concrete industry, we must first identify the loops and then plan how to close them. In this talk, Prof. Hanein will present genuine pathways to a sustainable future and show how supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), while necessary in the short term, are actually poisoning our building stock, creating more problems for future generations. Although we live in a time of challenges (and opportunities), through this talk we will discuss hope and perhaps bring some comfort to those whose homes have been reduced to ruins, so that their loss can inspire, enlighten, and bring about positive change, so that we can truly close the loop in the cement and concrete industry.

报告人简介Biography

Theodore Hanein is Professor of Construction Materials Science at the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. He is a world-renowned scientist and innovator with outstanding strategic vision and forward thinking and he has been awarded research and innovation funding with a total value of more than 100,000,000 RMB. Theo is also co-founder of United earth4Earth Holding that develops and produces life-cycle carbon negative bulk chemicals and construction materials.

Related to his talk, he is leading and creating innovation on the decentralization of cement and concrete manufacture (mobile, modular, electric, and truly circular).

Theo has 2 undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Balamand in Lebanon; then, he graduated from the University of Manchester (2012) with a Masters in Advanced Process Design and Integration and then from the University of Aberdeen (2016) with a PhD in Cement/Clinker Thermochemistry. Following, he began working at Sheffield (until March 2024), where he was promoted twice from postdoc to assistant professor and then associate professor. He is Vice President of the board of ISCOWA, and Associate Editor of the journals “Advances in Cement Research” and “Materials Reports: Solidwaste and Ecomaterials”. Theo also serves as Editorial board member of “Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction” and is on the Editorial Advisory Committee of “Materials and Structures”.