Keynote: Developments and expected future trends in sustainable cement and concrete technology

Karen Scrivener has been a Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Construction Materials (LMC) in the Department of Materials at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland, for the last 20 years. She is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the author of over 200 journal papers.

Her research focuses on understanding the chemistry and microstructure of cement-based materials and improving their sustainability. In 2008, she came up with the idea for LC³ cement (Limestone Calcined Clay Cement). This material has the potential to cut CO₂ emissions related to cement by more than 400 million tonnes a year.

She received her bachelor’s degree in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge in 1979 and her PhD from Imperial College London in 1984.