AIA UK Sustainability Series - Circularity in Practice: A Roadmap to Harvesting and Reusing Structural Concrete in London

Join AIA UK for the latest lunchtime talk in our Sustainability Series, focusing on exciting research into the structural reuse of concrete.

When: Thursday 15 April 2025, 12:30
Where: ONLINE
CES Credits - Estimated 1.0 LU/HSW for AIA Members

RIBA Members may count this activity towards their CPD recording requirement.

Speakers

Adam Ozinsky, Senior Associate at 3XN/GXN

Jack Schroeder, Structural Engineer at Arup

Marc Easton, Associate Structural and Design Engineer at Arup

Description

Structural reuse of sawn in-situ concrete has rarely been conducted anywhere globally, and certainly not in London. GXN’s recent research with British Land, Arup, and the University of Surrey, has the potential to transform how we design and construct our buildings, not just in the UK but worldwide.

The team set out to innovate. They prototyped a method of extracting disused concrete slabs and testing them with the aim of reusing them in another structural application.  To their knowledge, this is the first time this has been tested at scale in the UK. In doing so, the aim is to demonstrate to the industry what is possible and uncover the barriers to more mainstream adoption of circularity practices so that we can collaboratively begin to solve them.

Join us for our next sustainability lecture as we hear about this important and ground-breaking work from Adam Ozinsky, Senior Associate at 3XN/GXN, Jack Schroeder, Structural Engineer at Arup, and Marc Easton, Associate Structural and Design Engineer at Arup.

Adam Ozinsky

Jack Schroeder

Marc Easton