A cleaner, greener construction industry

At CDE, research led by Dr Du Hongjian (Civil and Environmental Engineering) is exploring ways to use waste materials to produce more environmentally sustainable cement.
In this video he introduces one ongoing project, using waste from expired Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries that would otherwise end up in landfill as a cement replacement in the production of concrete.
The project uses iron phosphate from EV batteries supplied by NEU Battery Materials, a battery recycling start-up supported by NUS.
The project was also recently backed by a $50,000 grant from the Decentralised Gap (DeGap) Fund from NUS Enterprise.