News & Events
Registration now open: April 23rd Lab2Slab Open House
Lab2Slab will host an Open House on April 23rd as part of the annual California Concrete Pavement Conference, the premier West Coast concrete pavement conference focused on the design and construction of resilient, long-life concrete roads, highways, bridges, and parking areas. Learn from top industry professionals, researchers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders. Discover impactful innovations in the design and construction of durable and sustainable concrete infrastructure.
–>Register for the conference
2026 Listening Session Series: Barriers to Implementing Innovative Concrete Materials
This new series, presented by UCPRC, ACI Foundation, NEU, and MDSC, explores barriers to implementing emerging concrete technologies across the value chain. Each session focuses on a specific stakeholder group and will inform an action-oriented roadmap. Transportation infrastructure relies heavily on energy- and resource-intensive materials such as cement and concrete. Emerging materials and technologies offer opportunities to improve efficiency and durability while reducing life-cycle costs. Realizing these opportunities requires understanding the real-world challenges, questions, and uncertainties faced by those who design, produce, and build infrastructure.
–>Presentation slides are now available for the first three sessions.
Special Webinar: Lab2Slab2Practice: Framework for a Faster Pace of Implementation of Novel Concrete Materials and Technology
Associate Professor at UC Davis and Principal Investigator at the UCPRC, Somayeh Nassiri’s webinar on Lab2Slab2Practice presents a comprehensive risk management framework for accelerating the adoption of low-carbon concrete into standard practice based on systematic evaluation. The framework draws upon social behavioral models, including Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, Diffusion of Innovations (DOI), and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to help identify and manage risks. These methods help to guide the novel technology integration process by addressing early adopters, building performance expectancy, reducing perceived user effort, leveraging social influence, and facilitating conditions. By reliable, fast throughput experimentation at laboratory and slab scales, engaging all stakeholders, the framework aims to manage risks. These methods help to guide the novel technology integration process by addressing early adopters, building performance expectancy, reducing perceived user effort, leveraging social influence, and facilitating conditions.
–> Watch the recording