Net-zero construction materials

由于建筑物的建造需要大量的资源，而且缺乏碳中性建筑材料，因此脱碳对建筑行业来说是一个巨大的挑战。复合材料设计有限公司将证明在这个项目中制造净零建筑材料的可行性。我们将通过用免烧粘合剂粘合的砖取代传统的窑烧粘土砖来实现这一目标。这将消除对燃烧的需求，并减少碳排放。此外，我们将用其他填料取代正在成为稀有商品的二氧化硅（砂）骨料。我们已经确定了具有碳储存潜力的填料。我们将对现有类型的砖进行基准测试，以确定粘合剂-填料比例，并准备测试混合物，以确定最有前途的解决方案。我们还将基准测试其他解决方案在文献中试验时，准备新的水泥或沥青。我们将对测试样品进行定性和定量评估，并使用最有前途的测试混合物生产原型砖。除了碳认证外，我们还将评估混合物的加工性能，以确保我们的产品可以使用现有的生产工厂生产，以促进我们产品的快速采用。我们有信心，我们对这一土木工程挑战的开箱即用的发展方法将有助于该行业提高资源效率，并使英国行业对外部因素更具弹性。

Decarbonising is a big challenge for the construction industry due to the very large amount of resources required in the erection of buildings and the absence of carbon neutral construction materials. Composite Designers Ltd will demonstrate feasibility of manufacturing net-zero construction materials in this project. We will achieve this by substituting traditional kiln fired clay bricks with bricks bonded using no-bake binders. This will eliminate the need for firing and reduce carbon process emissions. In addition, we will substitute silica (sand) aggregates which is becoming a rare commodity with other fillers. We have identified fillers which can have carbon storage potential. We will benchmark existing types of bricks for binder -- filler ratios and prepare test mixtures to identify most promising solutions. We will also benchmark other solutions trialled in the literature when preparing novel cements or asphalts. We will qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate our test samples and produce prototype bricks with the most promising test mixtures. Aside from their carbon credentials, we will also evaluate the processability of our mixtures to ensure that our products can be produced using existing production plants to promote quick adoption of our products. We are confident that our outside-the-box development approach to this civil engineering challenge will help the industry to become resource efficient and the UK industry more resilient to outside factors.