Cloud Cycle LTD.

Concrete is the world's second most consumed material after water, with over 90 million tonnes produced annually in the UK (MPA, 2021). While essential to modern infrastructure, its production carries a significant environmental cost due to the carbon intensity of Portland cement. A major inefficiency in current practice is overdesign, where excess cement...

As the world's most used man-made material and single-largest industrial-source of CO2, concrete decarbonisation represents a critical component of sustainable construction and the cornerstone of a a global net-zero economy. Almost 90% of concrete greenhouse-gas emissions are due to the process of producing portland cement clinker. Mix design optimisation...

Cloud Cycle Ltd, led by Dr Emeso Ojo (project lead), Dr Mohamed Ismail (technical lead), Geraldine Hodges (commercial lead) and Dr Ed Waugh (engineering lead), is a UK concrete technology SME developing a cost-effective sensor monitoring system for the fresh concrete industry. In ready-mixed concrete production, over-ordering by customers or ineffective q...

The UK cement industry is facing increasing pressure to reduce its emissions profile in line with government targets (net zero 2050) and end-users that a looking for 'low-carbon' concrete solutions. Furthermore, there is a shortage of supply versus demand for cement throughout the UK, whereby 5% of concrete goes to waste on construction projects and Covid...

Waste concrete has become a global construction problem, with over 500M tonnes of surplus concrete being sent to landfill every year. The CO2 produced for the manufacture of structural concrete (using ~14% cement) is estimated at 176 kg/tonne (This is Concrete, 2017), meaning that 88M tonnes of CO2 is unnecessarily released into the atmosphere every year....

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