Net Zero Construction Conference 2022

Hessam Azari Jafari, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist and Deputy Director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His background is in industrial ecology and its application to construction management and engineering. As a principal investigator and researcher, Hessam has led various projects related to the life cycle sustainability assessment and the nexus of pavements, buildings, and vehicles. Hessam also served as a Lecturer in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. He is a voting and advisory member of several technical committees on sustainable construction and environmental assessment, including ISO 14082 Radiative Forcing Management, ACI 130 - Sustainability in Concrete, and Low-carbon assets through the life cycle assessment initiative (LCA^2). Hessam is chairing the ACI eco-concrete competition since 2017, which aims to promote and educate undergraduate civil engineering students on life cycle sustainability. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada in 2018.