STK0213 – Sustainability and efficiency in steel structures: solutions to overcome current challenges

Description

Date: October 13, 2022, 19:00 UTC. Webinar

Estimated Time: 1 hr

Language: Spanish

Summary of the lecture

The control of emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases is one of the great challenges facing society for sustainable development.

Construction plays a central role in this process, since materials and raw materials are usually the main sources of CO2 emissions throughout the life cycle of a building, according to studies in the Instructe Guide.

Under this scenario, this presentation proposes to discuss elementary concepts about CO2 emissions, such as the Carbon Footprint and Embedded Carbon, as well as how to review the stages of a Building Life Cycle and its relationships with the scopes defined by the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (Scopes 1,2 and 3).

In addition to this, according to the perspective of one of the main steel producers on a global scale, a special focus will be made on Structural Steel and more specifically on Hot Rolled Sections produced according to the ASTM A913 (HISTAR®) standard – we will try to demonstrate how the production of steel from scrap & EAF (Electric Arc Furnaces), associated with the use of renewable electrical energy (XCarb™) and processes that deliver higher performance steels, allow us better performance of Steel Structures, with optimisation of its consumption and reduction of carbon emissions of the Projects.

Speakers introduction

Daniel Silvério
Technical Sales Engineer

ArcelorMittal

Daniel Silvério is a Civil Engineer graduated from the Universidad Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), specialist in Steel Structures from the Brazilian Institute of Continuing Education (INBEC) and in Structural Building Projects in Steel with BIM Technology by the INESA TECH institution in Barcelona. In a continuous search for professional development, he is studying the International Master in Metallic and Mixed Building Structures at Zigurat Global Institute of Technology.

He is part of the Presales for Construction Products team in the position of Technical Sales Engineer, based in the São Paulo/Brazil office, being in charge of the hot-rolled section line of ArcelorMittal LCE (Long Carbon Europe) for all of Latin America.

With more than 10 years in the Metal Construction field, it actively participates in Projects of different natures, collaborating in the regulatory development in different countries and contributing to the promotion of the use of Structural Steel in Civil Construction in our region.

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Course includes

  • 1 Lesson