Program

 December 12, 2012
7:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Welcoming Remarks
  • Rabih Fakih, Grey Matters

9:10 – 10:00

Session 1: SUSTAINABILITY; Organizations-Accreditations
  • Global Sustainability Assessment System, Dr. Esam Elsarrag; GORD-Qatar
  • Staying in the Game with LEED v4, Tien Peng; NRMCA-USA
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: SUSTAINABILITY; Specifications-Durability
  • Specifying Sustainable Concrete, Lionel Lemay; NRMCA-USA
  • Life Cycle Management of Concrete Structures – From Durability Design to Corrosion Monitoring, Dr. Till Felix Mayer; Schiessl Gehlen Sodeikat-Germany
  • Demystifying Corrosion Inhibitors; Usama Jacir; Cortec-Middle East
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch and Award Ceremony
13:30 - 17:00 Session 3: ON SITE DEMONSTRATION
  • Live Casting of SCC
December 13, 2012
9:00 - 11:00 Session 4: QCS 2010 and READYMIX CERTIFICATIONS 
  • Opening Session, Dr. Mohamad Bin Saif Al Kuwari; Ministry of Environment-Qatar
  • Ashghal, Eng. Khalid Emadi; Ashghal-Qatar
  • Changes in QCS2010;  Dr. Noureddin Issa DaasMinistry of Environment-Qatar
  • Readymix Certifications; Eng. Sultan Al Kuwari; Ministry of Environment-Qatar
  • Panel Discussion
11:00- 11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Session 5: CARBON FOOTPRINT
  • Quantifying the Real vs. Methodological Variability in Embodied Carbon Footprints; Frances Yang; ARUP-USA
  • Carbon Footprint of High Performance Versus Conventional Vibrated Concrete, Dr. Olafur Wallevik; ICI-Iceland
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Session 6: INNOVATIVE CONCRETE PRACTICES
  • Sustainable Green Concrete Blocks Through Carbonation Curing; Dr. Hilal El-Hassan; McGill University-Canada
  • Sustainable Road Side Concrete Barriers with High Impact Absorption, Mohamad Elchalakani; Dubai Men’s College-UAE
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:30 Session 7: ADVANCED CONCRETE APPLICATIONS
  • Some Application of Nanofine in Concrete, Anil Parashar; Binani Cement-UAE
  • Innovations for the entire world of Lightweight Concrete Applications; Marijan Fucek; Liapor-Austria
  • Low heat cement; Dr. Alexander Rusinoff; Kalmatron-USA

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