Date: 14th October 2025 | Venue: Trinity College Dublin

Overview:

Recycled aggregate concrete improves the added value recovery of better quality construction and demolition waste (CDW), avoiding its use for road construction or in landfilling and reduces the extraction of mineral resources. CDW production and demand for concrete are well matched, leading to small incorporation ratios of recycled aggregates having a very meaningful effect on the overall recovery ratios of concrete waste. Further, it opens the way for other, more profitable, avenues for CDW recovery, such as the use of recycled fines, after forced carbonation or thermal activation, as cement replacement. Notwithstanding the wealth of research on recycled aggregate concrete, its use as a structural material in most EU countries is met with reservations by the several agents involved in concrete construction. This presentation summarises the main ideas of a Science for Policy Report of the Joint Research Centre, overviewing the science behind recycled aggregate concrete, the current status for CDW recovery in the EU, and measures to promote recycled aggregate concrete as a common structural material.

Who Should Attend:

This free-to-attend lecture will be of interest to all those who are involved in the specification and production of concrete, to contractors and other agents of the construction sector and to those involved in construction and demolition waste management, and policy makers.

Programme:

5.45pm: Registration, Tea/Coffee
6.30pm: Use of Recycled Aggregate in Concrete lecture
7.15pm: Q&A
7.30pm: Event Ends
7.45pm: Group Dinner*

CPD: 1 Hour

Fees: Free to attend**

* Please indicate when booking if you would like to join the group for dinner and avail of the opportunity to talk further. ** There will be a charge for dinner.

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