Scopus Researcher of the Year Awards 2019 - Professor Vivian Tam


I'm viviane 10 from Western Sydney University. My research is on sustainable constructions and mostly related to life cycle nasa's green building and recycled concrete for a part for this port. I'm using the innovations of co2 concrete in general that we actually when we have the old building we damaged the old building. And then we crush it become recycled aggregate. Most of the time. We just were using recycled arrogate to produce recycled concrete with ingredients. But the problem is the strength as you will reduce co2. Concrete is actually injecting carbon dioxide into the recycled air gate to produce that we call a co2 concrete. The string has been matching and not only about the performers has been matched and also the cost has been reduced as well. I'm using the concrete to be apart into the industry at the moment with the university with the Western Sydney University support. The we have already put pour some of the concrete for the university. The first one that we've done is last year. March 2018 that. We've done a small foot bath which is about 40 by 50 centimeters which is not too big but it is for people to enter and exit the farm and then they had the catch a clean the boots but recently this year March we actually upgraded the scale of the production of the co2 concrete. They already become 3 metres by 3 meters slabs and what we are using it for for the cow on top to put a core drinking station on top and then the cow we stand it on top to drink it and that's why it's like a weight test because it's about each cow is about a tongue each a ton weight and then four five six cows that you can achieve on top of the step is going to be a weight test for that. Yeah that's how we are doing at the moment but we're still looking forward to further progressing with some partnering with some industry as well what I can see is because researchers is mainly about publishing papers at the beginning and then we're actually look into. How can we get some fundings to put a lot of research teams but at the moment with a lot of Australian government that push we are looking to really impacts.

I'm really hope to make this project to make even further impacts at this stage that we are looking into a patent we're looking into the pollution of patents and after the way we can actually try to push it to the Australian market and then we're also looking into some international market as well.