New processes – ultra-thin glass

Low carbon

Most of the world’s man-made carbon emissions are released by burning fossil fuels to create electricity, heat or motion. We can help to reduce these emissions through innovations in the way we design and construct buildings

The products featured on our future materials & processes stand at Ecobuild 2017 will help to build a low carbon future through reducing weight and energy required for production. There are ensuing savings not only within the building footprint but also through transporting lighter materials to site. Some of the products also allow for curved as well as linear-based buildings, so increasing the creative pallet for carbon-neutral architecture.

Tuesday 7 March

14:30–15:30 BRE Academy, Ecobuild

Durable low carbon paving brick

Professor Eshmaiel Ganjian, University of Coventry

Professor Ganjian is a Professor of Civil Engineering Materials in the Centre for Low Impact Buildings at the University of Coventry. He has held positions in universities in the UK and abroad as well as in consultancy firms, supervising major civil engineering works for quality control of concrete and mix design. His research is focused on making use of waste products in construction as viable alternatives to environmentally harmful ones, and offering safer alternatives.

Unleashing design freedom through glass fibre reinforced concrete

Dr Marco Donà, University of Cambridge

Marco Donà is a Research Associate in the Glass & Façade Technology Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Previously he has worked as a structural engineer in several Italian engineering firms. His current research focuses on design methods and connections of a new generation of fibre reinforced polymer sandwich panel system suitable for geometrically complex building forms.

Towards carbon neutral architecture: Luminescent Solar Concentrators for building integrated photovoltaics

Mark Portnoi, UCL

Mark Portnoi is a PhD researcher in the Photonic Innovations Lab at UCL. His focus in on improving the efficiency of Luminescent Solar Concentrators. He has a background in electronic and electrical engineering.

Light-weight sandwich panel façade solutions for complex building geometries

Research by Isabelle Paparo, talk delivered by Dr Marco Donà, University of Cambridge

Marco Donà is a Research Associate in the Glass & Façade Technology Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Previously he has worked as a structural engineer in several Italian engineering firms. His current research focuses on design methods and connections of a new generation of fibre reinforced polymer sandwich panel system suitable for geometrically complex building forms.

Curved toughened glass façades

Kyriaki Corinna Datsiou for Dr Mauro Overend, University of Cambridge

Mauro Overend is a Senior researcher at the University of Cambridge Glass and leades the Façade Technology Research Group Research. He is a chartered engineer, and returned to academia after eight years in structural and façade engineering, where he led multi-disciplinary teams on building projects in the UK and overseas. His recent research focus is on stressed-skin glass structures.