Concrete is the world's most widely-used anthropogenic material, and Circular Economy
strategies will be key to addressing the myriad challenges that face its use today and into the …

The negative impacts of cement-based material (CBM) production are way bigger than ever
expected. To illustrate the scale of this phenomenon, all the forests in the world, regardless …

Cement is used globally in construction materials for nearly all civil infrastructure systems
supporting improved quality of life, and there is currently no substitute that can meet its …

Traditional building materials have some drawbacks in the construction industry, particularly
in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. Biomaterials derived from …

The construction industry plays a critical role in Circular Economy (CE) transition because of
its significant resource intensity. However, construction CE is limited due to its unique …

Recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) is expected to a sustainable solution to alter the virgin
aggregate concrete (VAC) in structural use. While it is able to address environmental issues …

This study compares the environmental impacts of blast furnace slag-, fly ash-, and
metakaolin-based alkali-activated concretes with Portland cement (PC) concretes using life …

Abstract Information technologies are increasingly adopted across the world to promote the
efficiency of construction and demolition (C&D) waste management and alleviate the …

Existing life cycle assessments of concrete containing supplementary cementitious materials
(SCMs) hinge on methodological procedures that might skew the results towards the …

This paper aims to assess greenhouse gases'(GHG) emissions in the life cycle of wood bio-
concretes (WBC) production when recycled wood shavings (WS) are used as a circular …