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Towards sustainable concrete

Nature Materials, 2017
Paulo J. M. Monteiro, Sabbie A. Miller and Arpad Horvath provide an overview of the challenges and accomplishments in reducing the environmental burden of concrete production.
Paulo J M, Monteiro, Sabbie A, Miller, Arpad, Horvath   +2 more
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Making Sustainability Concrete

Public Culture, 2023
Abstract “Sustainability” is an increasingly fashionable design criterion for celebrity corporate architects, their clients, and the governmental bodies that regulate urban development. Yet determining if and how a building is actually sustainable remains controversial, with different actors positing qualifications that are often at odds
Christo Sims, Akshita Sivakumar
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Concreting method that produces sustainable concrete

2014
For the last decades, concrete materials and technology have been widely developing in many ways in order to achieve an economic and high quality product. But from the other hand concrete offersa wide range of capabilities to achieve a good balance between human needs and earth's capacity which is known as the sustainability.
Abdelgader H.S., Othman A.M., El-Baden A.S., Angelescu N.   +3 more
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Sustainability of Concrete Infrastructures

Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2016
AbstractSustainability of modern civil engineering structures is the broad objective of the present paper. Infrastructures should be designed and built to be used satisfactorily over longer life spans without collapse or deterioration requiring major repair.
Amin Ghali, Ramez B. Gayed, Jadwiga Kroman   +2 more
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Admixtures and sustainable concrete

The Structural Engineer, 2013
Admixtures are defined in EN 934-2:2012 as: 'material added during the mixing process of concrete in a quantity not more than 5% by mass of the cement content of the concrete, to modify the properties of the mix in the fresh and/or hardened state'. They are normally liquids and act on the surface of particles in the mix. This differentiates them from '
Andrew Minson, Ian Berrie
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Sustainable Concrete

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Gourav G. T., Suhas A., Gangadhar S. D., Smaran D., Shridhar Kumbhar   +4 more
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Sustainable concrete production

Concrete plant international, 2011
The concrete industry is now the largest consumer of natural resources and one of the largest producers of waste. In Europe alone, the annual production of concrete is over 750 million m3, which corresponds to 4 tonnes of concrete per capita. Although concrete itself as a finished material does not have any harmful effect on the environment, the ...
Štirmer, Nina, Bjegović, Dubravka, Serdar, Marijana   +2 more
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Sustainable concrete production

2007
Sustainable concrete ...
Šelih, Jana, Žarnić, Roko
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The sustainability of concrete

2014
While Ireland has many deposits for the manufacture of concrete products there is increasing pressure and concern about the environmental impact of emissions from the concrete industry in particular the production of cement the main constituent of concrete.
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Sustainability of Concrete Construction

Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, 2008
Sustainability is important to the well-being of our planet, continued growth of a society, and human development. Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials in the world. However, the production of portland cement, an essential constituent of concrete, leads to the release of significant amounts of CO2, a greenhouse gas GHG ...
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