The inaugural lecture of Assist. Prof. Numa Bertola entitled “Bridging sustainability and concrete structures” will take place on 14 January 2025 on Belval Campus.
Presentation
Concrete production accounts for 10% of global CO2 emissions, underscoring the urgent need to radically transform how we design and manage concrete structures. This lecture introduces emerging strategies for innovative designs and extending structural lifespans. These strategies leverage novel digital tools, cutting-edge sensing technologies, advances in material science, and rediscovered lowtech
solutions to reimagine concrete structure design and assessment.
Biography
Assist. Prof. Numa Bertola leads the sustainable concrete structures group at the University of Luxembourg since January 2024. After an MSc in Civil Engineering from EPFL (2016), he obtained a PhD at the Singapore- ETH Centre in 2020 on infrastructure monitoring. Then, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL between 2020 and 2023 on the rehabilitation and assessments of concrete structures.
Programme
- 17:30 Welcome speech – Pascal Bouvry, Dean, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
- 17:35 Lecture “Bridging sustainability and concrete structures” – Numa Bertola, Assistant professor in Civil Engineering with a focus on concrete structures
- 18:15 Q&A
- 18:30 Cocktail