Peer-to-Peer webinar
 
The next Peer-to-Peer webinar will take place on Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 2 pm Paris Time. The theme of this webinar is “Testing natural materials for construction: results from biowaste-based composites, earthen blocks, and joint systems for bamboo structures”. To register, and for more details about the speakers, follow this link.

 

 

4^th Young Researchers’ Symposium and 5^th TLC2
 
The 4^th Young Researchers’ Symposium (YRS) and the 5^th International Workshop on Technologies for Low-Carbon & Lean Construction (TLC2) are RILEM events organised by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, respectively taking place on 27 January, and 28-30 January 2026, in Chennai, India. The deadline to submit your contribution to the YRS is 30 September 2025… hurry up!

 

 

294-MPA paper
 
The new paper published by the members of RILEM TC 294-MPA, Examining reproducible mix design, fresh and mechanical properties of ground granulated blast furnace slag-based alkali-activated concrete (GGBFS-based AAC): results of an interlaboratory study of RILEM TC 294-MPA. Mater Struct 58, 235 (2025), presents the investigation, conducted between 2020 and 2024, to establish globally reproducible mix design and mixing protocols for GGBFS-based AAC. The shareable version of this paper is available here!  

 

 

Report of the 79th RILEM Annual Week and ICONS 2025
 
The 79^th RILEM Annual Week and ICONS 2025 was held in the beautiful city of Hanoi, Vietnam, on 22-29 August 2025. Have you missed this event? You can read in the report here what happened in Hanoi!

 

 

NEX funds
…RILEM and NEx: an ACI Center of Excellence for Nonmetallic Building Materials, have been partners since 2023? NEx has announced the availability of funding and sponsorship opportunities for 2026. Follow this link for more details on the issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs).

 

 

1^st RILEM Youth Symposium, 20-21 October 2025, online
 
RILEM Spring Convention, 13-17 April 2026, Ghent, Belgium
 
80^th RILEM Annual Week, 5-12 September 2026, Nairobi, Kenya
 
RILEM Spring Convention, 6-10 April 2027, Thessaloniki, Greece
 
More RILEM events