Gaurav Sant to receive innovation award from American Concrete Institute

Gaurav Sant, associate professor and Henry Samueli Fellow in civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, will receive the 2016 Jean-Claude Roumain Innovation Award from the American Concrete Institute Foundation at the institute’s annual national convention in October. The award recognizes individuals who are striving to build more sustainable environments and/or contributed to concrete innovations in production, mixing, construction and materials.

Sant is being recognized for his research on how materials influence cement hydration rates and on the development of carbon dioxide-neutral cement –  work to reduce the 5 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions that result from concrete production. Sant has been working with a team of interdisciplinary researchers at UCLA to create a new building material, CO₂NCRETE, which doesn’t release carbon dioxide and actually uses carbon released by power plant smokestacks.

For more information about CO₂NCRETE research at UCLA, click here.