Future materials: Innovations for a lower-carbon built world

Date: Thursday 11th September 2025
Time: 12.00 - 13.00 CEST

Shaping the future built environment calls for bold creativity, strong collaborations, and both designing and reusing materials for circularity.

With embodied carbon making up as much as half of a building’s total emissions, we need to transform the way we design, build, and reuse. Future materials aren’t only about climate or carbon — they can reduce costs, unlock new opportunities for investment and manage supply chain risk.

At Ramboll, we believe innovation happens when engineers, researchers, and industry partners come together to test, learn, and push ideas from vision to reality.

As part of World Green Building Week (8–12 September) and its call to “Be bold on buildings”, this webinar explores how circular and prefabricated low-carbon solutions are shaping the next generation of building materials.

• How circular economy models can become technically and commercially competitive
• Ramboll’s ‘Sandbox experiments’ — a fast-track approach to bringing tested low-carbon solutions to market

Programme

Circularity in practice: Reuse of precast concrete 
Inari Weijo - Business Development Manager - Refurbishment, Ramboll Finland
From research to reality: insights from the EU-funded ‘ReCreate’ project and how it led to the first commercial reuse of hollow-core slabs.

Testing low-carbon prefabricated materials: Ramboll’s Sandbox experiments
Tim Gudmand-Høyer - Senior Chief Engineer, Ramboll
Real-world examples from our collaborative “sandbox” — where industry professionals experiment, learn, and innovate quickly to create the materials of tomorrow.

Followed by Q&A.