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This PhD project is a part of the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship looking to support the climate change and net zero agenda. This opportunity forms a suite of five projects focusing on pushing 3D concrete printing and hybrid construction towards net zero manufacturing.
3-D concrete printing and the latest hybrid manufacturing processes (using robotic milling and finishing processes with concrete printing) are new digitally driven automated construction technologies that can be seen in manufacturing buildings worldwide. These processes have huge potential to address the challenge of net-zero construction manufacturing, but we need to understand how to do this and where the technical challenges are.
This PhD is part of a cohort of five PhDs focused on answering this question. It will bring together the disciplines of life-cycle analysis and circular economy, structural engineering, manufacturing engineering, and material science.
You will work together and develop as a team and your combined research will inform a roadmap of improvement that will influence these technologies worldwide.
This studentship will focus on understanding the embodied carbon and approaches to circular manufacture that apply to Hybrid 3D concrete printing, using modelling based on real-world data to benchmark these new processes with existing ones and to quantify the extent and nature of the challenges of achieving net-zero manufacturing.
Study interests should include: materials, life cycle analysis, circular economy, embodied carbon, construction, manufacturing and automation, offsite manufacturing, waste, reuse and recycling.
The successful candidate is likely to have a background in manufacturing, construction, and/or materials.
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