Oakdale: a step-change in UK materials and manufacturing using carbon negative materials to achieve carbon neutral batch designs

硬景观（道路、车道、台阶、墙壁、路沿）行业面临着巨大的压力，需要减少碳足迹，到2050年达到净零目标，根据巴黎协议，英国到2030年将碳排放量减少68%。由于水泥/混凝土行业是全球污染最严重、资源最密集的行业之一，要实现这些环境目标，将需要改变游戏规则的材料和制造工艺。考虑到在任何建筑项目中，混凝土的碳排放量占总碳排放量的50-85%，开发新型、低排放的资源节约型材料，取代目前的材料，将是水泥行业深度脱碳的关键。位于北约克郡的中小企业Oakdale和位于蒂斯山谷的材料加工研究所（MPI）、研究和技术组织（RTO）正在合作解决该行业的终极挑战：开发一种商业上可行的低碳混凝土，具有碳中和足迹（LECC-CN），用于制造重型（HD）路肩，目前没有制造商能够做到这一点。该联盟将MPI的尖端基础研究专业知识与Oakdale的长期工业知识和经验相结合，为铺装行业开发低碳含量的新型产品。LECC-CN批量设计将是突破性的，与目前市场上任何产品的成本相媲美，并满足严格的行业性能要求。然而，它将以最低的，如果可能的话，碳负足迹来实现这一目标。奥克戴尔的新产品将以生命周期评估为基础，证明其对环境的影响。因此，该项目将颠覆水泥/混凝土和低碳水泥/混凝土行业，为未来经济提供一种替代材料，能够实质性地解决该行业最重要和最紧迫的挑战。

The hard landscaping (paths, driveways, steps, walls, kerbs) industry is under immense pressure to reduce its carbon footprint to reach net zero targets by 2050 and for the UK to cut its carbon emissions by 68% by 2030 under the Paris agreement. With the cement/concrete industry being among the most polluting and resource-intensive industries globally, meeting these environmental targets will require game-changing materials and manufacturing processes. Considering that concrete is responsible for 50-85% of the embodied carbon in any building project, unlocking novel, resource-efficient materials with low-emissions profiles that displace today's materials will be key to deeply decarbonise the cement industry.Oakdale, SME based in North Yorkshire, and the Materials Processing Institute (MPI), research and technology organisation (RTO) based in the Tees Valley, are collaborating to tackle the industry's ultimate challenge: developing a commercially-viable, Low-Embodied Carbon Concrete, with a Carbon Neutral footprint (LECC-CN) to manufacture Heavy Duty (HD) kerbs, which no manufacturer is currently capable of doing. The consortium is fusing MPI's cutting-edge fundamental research expertise and Oakdale's long-term industrial know-how and experience developing novel products with low-embodied carbon content for the paving industry.The LECC-CN batch design will be ground-breaking, rivalling the cost of any product currently on the market and meeting stringent industry performance requirements. However, it will be doing so with the lowest, and if possible, carbon-negative footprint. Oakdale's new products will be underpinned by a life cycle assessment, certifying their environmental impacts. As such, this project will disrupt the cement/concrete and low-carbon cement/concrete industries, providing an alternative material for the future economy capable of substantially addressing the industry's most important and urgent challenge.