Concrete Sustainability podcast series - Episode 3 - DI Sebastian Spaun, Roadmap to CO2 neutrality of the Austrian Cement Industry

Since 2015, DI Sebastian Spaun has been managing director of the Association of the Austrian Cement Industry (VÖZ). Before that, he has already led the department on Environment & Technology of the VÖZ for 17 years. 

Other functions of him include being board member of the Austrian Society for Construction Technology (ÖBV) as well as supervisory board member of Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR), a network of private research institutes offering applied R&D for companies.

Having received a profound knowledge to understand ecological interrelation by studying “Land and Water Management and Engineering" at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, he is nowadays focussing his professional work on the decarbonisation of cement production, resource-efficient construction as well as the creation of long-lasting transportation infrastructure.

RELATED PODCASTS, SOURCES AND LINKS:

• Association of the Austrian Cement Industry (VÖZ) - https://www.zement.at/ 
• Planning guide for energy storage concrete/thermal component activation - https://www.zement.at/service/publikationen/energiespeicher-beton
• Addressed study about the CO2 uptake in cement-containing products by the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute - https://www.ivl.se/download/18.34244ba71728fcb3f3f8f9/1622457897161/B2309.pdf
• Study on the global carbon uptake by cement production by Xi et al. (2016) - https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2840
• Addressed prefabricated concrete ceiling system with integrated thermal component activation - https://www.innogration.de/ceiltec-deckensysteme/
• Photo credit: derfritz (on behalf of BDÖ)

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The podcast was recorded on the 24th of March at the office of the Association of the Austrian Cement Industry in Vienna, Austria.

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