Autumn webinar series – Firth’s EC Calculator recording now available
We are pleased to now offer the recording of our third webinar in the Carbon section of our free autumn webinar series ‘The NOW and NEXT of LCA’.
The webinar titled ‘Firth’s Embodied Carbon Concrete Calculator’ was delivered by Dene Cook on 13th April.
Dene provided an overview of the calculator and explained how it allows for the design of customer specific low-carbon concrete mixes that meet the requirements for strength and durability while helping Firth and its customers to reduce cradle-to-gate carbon emissions.Dene Cook is the Divisional Technical manager for the Concrete Division of Fletcher Building. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of Engineers NZ. Dene started his career in engineering consultancy focusing on structural and geotechnical engineering. The later part of his career has been focused on concrete as a material. He has served on many NZ Standard committees, is the Chair of Concrete NZ, and was instrumental in the development of Firths EPD and Carbon Calculator for Concrete.