Heidi Jandris provides technical and design services for Jandris Block. She is part of the 3rd generation of family business’s , grew up immersed in all things concrete block and worked as a welder at the plant before getting her BArch at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Sustainable Building Systems degree at Northeastern University. 

Synopsis

Lowering the embodied carbon of concrete masonry units is essential to the environmental mission of Jandris Block. In this lecture Heidi Jandris described how her company’s CMUs both sequester carbon and uses less cement during manufacturing – thus further reducing the embodied carbon of their products.

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