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Refine versus shine: Defining and defending design intent with refined concrete

Construction Specifier

LEED AP, Vivian Volz, CSI, AIA, LEED AP, SCIP Photo courtesy Tao Group Solutions After years of grappling with client callbacks, legal disputes, and financial losses from poor polished concrete installations, the industry has reached a breaking point: prohibit polished concrete.

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CELLULAR LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE?FLY ASH BASED

The Constructor

It has many advantages when compared to the normal conventional concrete. Therefore, flyash based CLC is considered as environment friendly sustainable material produced with least energy demand. When we use this type of concrete we achieve large volume by less amount of concrete.

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Advancing sustainable construction: Specifying low-carbon concrete

Construction Specifier

At the same time, the built environment must adapt to the impacts of an already-changing climate by optimizing the resiliency of structural systems. 5 Stronger and safer buildings Concrete is the world’s most widely used construction material due to its significant performance, sustainability, and cost advantages.

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Ready mix concrete resource

GCP Applied Technologies

Ready mix concrete resource. The perishability of ready mix concrete makes it a complex product to ship. There's also a growing demand for sustainable concrete, to lower cement's carbon footprint—5% of global emissions come from cement production. Let's look at some of the technologies driving the ready mix concrete industry….

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Sustainably built environments: specifying low-carbon concrete

Construction Specifier

Sustainability attributes of concrete. As the most widely used building material, concrete offers many advantages for meeting the challenges of sustainable development. Not only is concrete entirely recyclable, but it also has a long lifespan. Not only is concrete entirely recyclable, but it also has a long lifespan.

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Could Greener Concrete Also Be Stronger?

ENR Construction

Researchers at MIT have found that portland cement can be manipulated to become stronger while at the same time posing less harm to the environment. Equipment'

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Ready mix concrete life cycle

GCP Applied Technologies

Ready mix concrete life cycle. Concrete producers can leverage advanced concrete admixtures , predictive analytics tools, and more to improve efficiency, from materials management to batching to concrete delivery. Concrete mix design. Concrete admixtures help to enable the use of these alternate pozzolans … more.