Conference Session at 7th fib Congress
15-19 June, 2026 @ Lisbon, Portugal
SINCERE partners PoliMi and BGU organize a special session at the 7th fib Congress with a focus on multifunctional low-carbon cementitious composites for structural and energy retrofitting of the existing structural and building portfolio, sharing the experience of the SINCERE project. The session addresses surely to academics, considering also the multi-fold aspects of the discipline which are tackled; presenting the outcomes of a Horizon Europe project, which has in its ambition to deliver four full scale pilot applications, is also oriented to professionals working in the field of retrofitting of existing concrete structures and building as well as of concrete cultural heritage, together with decision makers and stakeholders, whose contribution of the discussion can also bring ideas to foster the acceptance of new materials in public tenders.
Programme
Session title:
Multifunctional low-carbon cementitious composites for structural and energy retrofitting of the existing structural and building portfolio: the experience of the HEurope SINCERE project.
Selected papers:
Estefania Cuenca and Liberato Ferrara (Politecnico di Milano, Italy). Self-healing of high performance cementitious composites made with low clinker cement.
Ioannis Karatsios and Eirini Tziviloglou (Demokritos Institute Athens, Greece). Development of encapsulated self-healing admixtures for low-carbon cement mixtures.
Ruben P. Borg (University of Malta). Recyclability of concretes made with low clinker cements.
Francesco Lo Monte, Estefania Cuenca, Josè Ignacio Alvarez Galindo, Loucas Kyriakou and Liberato Ferrara (Politecnico di Milano, Italy/University of Navarra, Spain). UHPC with reduced embodied carbon and mPCM: preliminary study on physico-mechanical behavior.
Adan Wattad, Rotem Haik and Alva Peled (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel). Low carbon textile reinforced cementitious composites for structural retrofitting.
Sonsong Meng, Estefania Cuenca Asensio, Liberato Ferrara and Giacomo Torelli (University of Sheffield and Politecnico di Milano). Shrinkage-induced cracking in repair overlay mortars: experimental and analytical assessment.
Session organizers
Liberato Ferrara
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
liberato.ferrara@polimi.it
Alva Peled
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Isral
alvpeled@bgu.ac.il
About fib
The fib Congress is a premier international event held every four years by the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib). It serves as a global forum for engineers, researchers, and industry leaders to share the latest scientific and technological innovations in structural concrete.
The fib was formed in 1998 through the merger of two major organizations: the CEB (Euro-International Committee for Concrete) and the FIP (International Federation for Pre-stressing). It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and comprises 42 national member groups.