About this Episode:

In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, we explore one of the biggest infrastructure challenges facing Australia: how to decarbonise concrete at scale. Our guest, Clare Tubolets, CEO of SmartCrete CRC, explains why the technology to reduce embodied carbon in concrete already exists and why the real barriers are procurement systems, regulation, risk allocation and market incentives.

Clare shares insights from SmartCrete’s seven-year Cooperative Research Centre program, including:

• Sustainable concrete mix innovations
• Engineered design efficiencies
• Extending asset life through smarter asset management
• Why systemic reform is now more important than technical research

About Clare Tubolets:

As Chief Executive Officer, Clare has set up the CRC as an industry innovation collaborator that invests in research and development projects to help align and transform Australia’s concrete ecosystem to reach net zero. Clare has extensive CRC expertise, having been involved in CRCs as Industry and Research participant, CRC manager and Government program manager. She is an agile practitioner, passionate about unlocking collaborative potential by bringing together world leading research and industry specialists to solve real-world problems.

About Smartcrete CRC:

Smartcrete is an independent, for-impact Cooperative Research Centre (CRC),that empowers innovation collaborations to transition concrete for a sustainable Australia. Working with manufacturers, architects, engineers, developers, asset owners and government, we invest $21m of Commonwealth funding in university-delivered R&D projects that spur sustainable design, use and management of concrete.