Karen Scrivener
Professor and Head, Laboratory of Construction Materials, Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
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6th Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction – Cairo, April 2019.
Karen Scrivener, Professor and Head of Laboratory of Construction Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) based in Lausanne, Switzerland was a workshop moderator for Catch 22: Material needs versus material impact at the 6th International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction held in Cairo, Egypt in April 2019.
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Karen Scrivener, Professor & Head of Laboratory of Construction Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland at the LafargeHolcim Awards for Sustainable Construction 2017 jury meeting for Europe in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Last updated: April 19, 2024 Lausanne, Switzerland
She was a workshop moderator for “Catch 22: Material needs versus material impact” at the 6th Holcim Forum 2019, and a participant in the 3rd Holcim Roundtable 2018 held at the Institute for Lightweight Structures & Conceptual Design (ILEK), University of Stuttgart, Germany.
The work of the Laboratory of Construction Materials at EPFL is focussed on improving the sustainability of cementitious building materials.
Karen Scrivener graduated from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom in Materials Science (1979) and then completed a PhD on The Microstructural Development during the Hydration of Portland Cement at Imperial College in London, remaining there until 1995 as Royal Society Research Fellow and then lecturer.
She joined the Central Research Laboratories of Lafarge near Lyon in France in 1995, and was appointed as Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Construction Materials, Department of Materials at EPFL in 2001.
She is the founder and co-ordinator of Nanocem, a Network of industry and academia for fundamental research on cementitious materials and Editor in Chief of Cement and Concrete Research, the leading academic journal in the field.
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“Concrete is a very ecologically-friendly and local material – it must be improved and made more efficient,” explains Karen Scrivener following the Holcim Forum on “Re-materializing construction”. Scrivener is Head of the Laboratory of Construction Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne).
“Ecologically-friendly and local material” – Karen Scrivener
“Concrete is a very ecologically-friendly and local material – it must be improved and made more efficient,” explains Karen Scrivener following the Holcim Forum on “Re-materializing construction”. Scrivener is Head of the Laboratory of Construction Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne).