The paper entitled "Mechanical anisotropy, rheology and carbon footprint of 3D printable concrete: A review" by Chaofan Wang, Bing Chen, Thanh Liem Vo and Mohammad Rezania has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Building Engineering. The paper presents a state-of-the-art review on the rheology of 3D printed concrete and the effect of fabric anisotopy on the product behaviour. The work was conducted in collaboration with fellow scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) of China, thanks to a SJTU-Warwick Joint Seed Fund award.

The MINRESCUE Symposium was held during 15-16 June 2023 at Główny Instytut Górnictwa (GIG) presenting the work done by different collaborators within the MINRESCUE project consortium during the past 2+ years, in particular results of studies on physical & mineralogical characteristics of CMW geomaterials at GIG & University of Exeter; their mechanical & geotechnical behaviour at University of Warwick, SYSTRA Subterra & Poltegor-Instytut; CMWG recycled concrete and mortars at Politecnico di Milano, University of Cergy-Pontoise & University of Warwick; and of course LCA of upcycling CMWGs in construction materials by BRGM. It was a great opportunity to interact with colleagues & friends, as well as external engineers & researchers to disseminate the project results and our vision for their realisation, also to plan for future collaborations. Thanks to Dr Aleksander Wrana and his team at GIG for excellent organization of this two-day hybrid Symposium in Katowice, Poland.

The UKACM 2023Link opens in a new window was hosted at Warwick during 19th-21st April. The event, that was co-chaired by Dr Rezania and Dr Mousavi Nezhad, was a great success. This was the first time that UK Computational Mechanics community came to Warwick and they have been impressed by the conference organisation, Warwick campus and the research we do here. There was a great opening talk by Sotaro Kita, director of research culture, about STEM grant challenge and Warwick’s future research plan. We had representative from over 30 universities, 70 talks scheduled and delivered in three parallel sessions, 5 Keynotes speeches and two lectures delivered by outstanding scientists.

Special Thanks to the conference scientific committee, Toby Mottram, James Kermode, Duncan Lockerby, Albert Bartok-Partay, Susana Gomes, and Lukasz Figiel. Thanks are extended to the members of our research team, Nima Sarmadi, Hamid Moghimi, Hesam Dejaloud, Stefano Seccia, Huxi Xin, Thanh Vo, and Josephine Foghi who helped a great deal in running the conference smoothly.