New Concrete Mold System Uses the Right Amount of Concrete and No More.Concrete is the world’s most widely consumed material after water, and its production contributes to more than 7% of global CO2 emissions. Achieving global ambitions to limit warming to 1.5ºC will require significant change across the construction sector—not least in how we use concrete.
An easy win is simply to use less concrete, by eliminating waste and overdesign. This is the focus of the UKRI-funded research project Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN).
ACORN is researching how digital design and automated production methods can be used to create concrete floor systems with drastically reduced CO2 emissions. This is achieved using a segmented thin-shell floor solution that can be produced off-site using robotics, and is designed to be transportable, demountable, and reusable at the end of its first life, enabling circularity in construction.
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