Pre-Congress Courses

Prof. Karen Scrivener has been a Professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Construction Materials in the Department of Materials at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 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, a material with the potential to reduce CO₂ emissions related to cement production by more than 400 million tonnes per 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.

Professor Hans Beushausen studied civil engineering in Germany and South Africa and completed his PhD at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2005, working in the fields of repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures. In subsequent years at UCT, he broadened his scope of research and teaching from general fields related to structural engineering into service life prediction and performance-based design of concrete structures, steel reinforcement corrosion, and sustainable concrete technology. He is an active member of RILEM and fib and involved in a range of international research activities. At UCT, he is the Deputy Dean for Research and Strategic Innovation of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Director of the Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit, and the Convenor of the postgraduate programme on Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance.