Hosted by Concrete Council of Canada

Concrete products can help ease the housing crisis by offering low-carbon choices, aesthetic appeal, quick construction, durability, climate resilience, lower life-cycle costs, and reduced insurance and operating expenses. This session explores how modern cement and concrete solutions can support lower embodied carbon targets, faster construction timelines, long-term durability, and climate resilience. Participants will review verified environmental data, evolving building codes, and prefabrication strategies that position concrete as a practical tool for delivering more housing with predictable performance and cost control.

Learning Objectives
1. Examine how advanced cement and concrete solutions—paired with carbon project budgeting—equip architects to deliver low-carbon, resilient, and visually compelling projects.
2. Understand how insulating concrete form (ICF) construction and updated ready-mixed concrete benchmarks contribute to measurable carbon reductions and can serve as the foundation of housing. (With a third industry average Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for Ready Mixed Concrete, ICF construction’s carbon reductions can be quantified, even in winter.)
3. Learn why concrete designs mean resilient seismic performance–as codes evolve for climate and safety, see firsthand how concrete builds for communities today and the ripples of tomorrow.
4. Learn how concrete construction can help reduce build times, often by 20 to 50 percent. (Using prefab products can minimize waste, improve quality, and ultimately deliver more housing units faster to meet high demand, regardless of the weather.)

Grab-and-go lunch outside the meeting room at 12 pm. Sponsored Learning session in the assigned room from 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

Bart Kanters
President, Concrete Ontario
Rob Cooney
Vice president, Cement Association of Canada
Andrea McChesne
Executive director, Canadian Concrete Masonry Producers Association
Val Sylaj
President, Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute