About the event

DESNZ and Innovate UK are sponsoring an Advance Market Commitment (AMC) to promote innovative low-carbon concretes. As the programme moves from design to operationalisation, our goal is to align buyers, innovators and investors. This strategic shift is to enable promising products to be adopted as the market develops, and to enable innovators to leverage AMCs which support investment decisions.

We need the help of innovators in concrete and the supply chain to bring to life the exciting innovations that may fulfil the AMC to:

• Showcase to potential signatories of the AMC what innovations they may be committing to.
• Facilitate connections between innovators and the supply chain to raise awareness and seize potential development and deployment opportunities.
• Build confidence in innovations to encourage adoption.
• Help innovators prepare for the AMC process.

Who should attend?

• Innovators developing solutions to decarbonise concrete.
• Concrete supply chain supporting the development and implementation of innovative solutions.
• Investors interested in innovative low-carbon concrete technology.

Why attend?

• Find out more about the AMC and its progress.
• Understand how you might engage with the AMC.
• Connect with others working towards innovative low-carbon concrete solutions.
• Connect with potential investors.

We will share a briefing pack prior to the session covering information-sharing for buyers and investors, guidance on how to check whether your product maps to the target product profiles, information to assemble so that the AMC independent experts can evaluate alignment efficiently and opportunities to engage directly with specifiers, buyers and investors. There will also be the opportunity to be involved in insurance projects to facilitate access to insurers for specifiers and users of new solutions.

Background

What is the AMC?

The AMC is a collective commitment that accelerates the development and commercialisation of novel low-carbon concrete, consisting of the following key steps:

• Clear pre-set technical and commercial criteria for innovative low-carbon concrete (Target Product Profiles).
• Conditional, time-bound commitments by buyers for specific volumes of concrete if they meet the pre-set criteria.
• Commitments are aggregated creating a market demand signal.
• Innovators and funders scale-up production to meet demand.
• Pre-agreed commitments are activated once a solution exists.

Where your innovation fits

Buyers will make volume purchase commitments against three Target Product Profiles (TTPs) spanning both in-code and out-of-code solutions:

• Concrete using novel SCMs (i.e. not GGBS or virgin fly ash) that conform with existing codes.
• Concrete using low-carbon cement that conforms with existing codes.
• Concretes that do not conform with existing codes.

The TPPs also specify the range of strength classes that should be available, carbon intensity and maximum price, as well as other performance requirements.