Kimberly Kurtis, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor and Associate Dean
Georgia Institute of Technology
Advancing Sustainability in Concrete Infrastructure
The ubiquity and the necessity of concrete infrastructure prompts our need for increasing innovation to address the global challenge of meeting societal needs in the most sustainable and economical ways possible. While significant improvements in this field – from more efficient production to increased service life – have been realized over the past few decades, non-incremental innovations are necessary to meet global goals for sustainable development. This talk addresses recent progress in three key areas central to advancing sustainability in concrete infrastructure: (1) cement composition, (2) minimally processed minerals and (3) performance-based specification.
Kimberly Kurtis, Ph.D., P.E., Bio
Since 1999, Dr. Kimberly (Kim) E. Kurtis has been a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and currently holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Kurtis’s innovative research on the multi-scale structure and performance of cement-based materials has resulted in more than 200 technical publications, as well as four US patents. Dr. Kurtis is Fellow of the American Concrete Institute and the American Ceramics Society.