U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Industrial Technologies Program – Industrial Materials for the Future
Industry Partnerships
The U.S. Department of Energy and industry are participating in several collaborative partnerships to seek energy-efficient opportunities. The Materials portfolio partners with industry to help foster and develop materials related R&D that will enable industry to become more energy-efficient and environmental friendly.
The Materials portfolio sometimes works with industry areas not covered by other ITP programs to help them articulate their long-term goals and publish them in a unified vision for the future. To achieve that vision, industry leaders jointly define detailed R&D agendas known as roadmaps. Examples of vision and roadmap documents that the Materials portfolio has helped to produce include:
Vision 2030: A Vision for the U.S. Concrete Industry
On September 27, 2000, the concrete industry's Strategic Development Council hosted a Concrete Vision Workshop in Chicago, Illinois. Meeting participants included over 50 concrete, cement, and other allied industry chief executive officers, presidents, vice-presidents, laboratory and industry research managers, and government representatives. Participants discussed the state of the concrete industry 30 years ago, the state of the current industry, and their vision for the United States concrete industry in 2030. Moreover, they identified specific goals to achieve the industry's Vision 2030. This document, Vision 2030, is the product of that workshop and the comments received after a broad industry review. (PDF 119 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
Roadmap 2030: The U.S. Concrete Industry Technology Roadmap
Roadmap 2030: The U.S. Concrete Industry Technology Roadmap tracks the eight goals published in the American Concrete Institute Strategic Development Council's Vision 2030: A Vision for the U.S. Concrete Industry. Roadmap 2030 highlights existing state-of-the-art technologies and emerging scientific advances that promise high potential for innovation, and predicts future technological needs. It defines enabling research opportunities and proposes areas where governmental-industrial-academic partnerships can accelerate the pace of development. Roadmap 2030 is a living document designed to continually address technical, institutional, and market changes. (PDF 630 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
MTI Roadmap
In November of 2002, a two-day facilitated group meeting was held in Baltimore with a selected group of more than 40 world-class experts in materials and materials technology. The result of that meeting was the creation of the MTI Roadmap for Process Equipment Materials Technology. (PDF 235 KB) Download Adobe Reader.
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