Challenge 2 – Technological Innovation

Challenge 2 aims to develop the technical understanding for each life cycle stage of MCM and new technologies to reduce their demand, enable their circularity, and create economic value while improving their environmental and social impacts, building on the 4th industrial revolution and the Construction Sector Deal.

Identified opportunities for transformative technological changes will feed back to the scenario modelling in Challenge 1.

Focus Area 2A – Design for deconstruction and reuse of non-structural components

Focus Area 2B – Production of circular cements from UK mineral resources

Focus Area 2C – Assessment and optimisation for Circular MMC at product level

Focus Area 2D – UK resource-efficient concrete for whole-life performance

Focus Area 2E – Maximising circularity of concrete from C&D waste by complex systems modelling

This Challenge is led by Professor Leon Black, Professor of Infrastructure Materials, School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds.