The past and future of sustainable concrete: A critical review and new strategies on cement-based materials

J de Brito, R Kurda - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the concrete industry to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions

A Adesina - Environmental Challenges, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing sustainability awareness has put the concrete industry in the spotlight to reduce
its carbon dioxide emissions. Most of the carbon dioxide emission from the concrete industry …

Green concrete: Prospects and challenges

KM Liew, AO Sojobi, LW Zhang - Construction and building materials, 2017 - Elsevier
Utilization of green concrete in construction is increasingly adopted by the construction
industry owing to the drawbacks of conventional concrete and the numerous inherent …

Reuse of waste glass as a supplementary binder and aggregate for sustainable cement-based construction materials: A review

MNN Khan, AK Saha, PK Sarker - Journal of Building Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Safe disposal of the huge amount of waste glass has become a serious environmental
concern in many countries. On the other hand, production of concrete uses huge amount of …

Thermal insulating and fire resistance performances of geopolymer mortar containing auto glass waste as fine aggregate

P Chindaprasirt, J Lao-un, Y Zaetang… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
This research investigates the use of auto glass waste (AGW) as fine aggregates to improve
the thermal insulation and fire resistance properties of the high-calcium fly ash geopolymer …

Utilization of by-products and wastes as supplementary cementitious materials in structural mortar for sustainable construction

S Sakir, SN Raman, M Safiuddin, ABMA Kaish… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Rapid growth in industrial development has raised the concern of proper disposal of the by-
products generated in industries. Many of them may cause serious pollution to the air, land …

Current sustainable trends of using waste materials in concrete—a decade review

M Sandanayake, Y Bouras, R Haigh, Z Vrcelj - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Concrete is the most used construction material in the world. Consequently, the mass
extraction of virgin materials required for concrete production causes major environmental …

Valorization of recycled materials in development of self-compacting concrete: Mixing recycled concrete aggregates–Windshield waste glass aggregates

N Arabi, H Meftah, H Amara, O Kebaïli… - … and Building Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
The presented paper is based on a comparative experimental study aimed to incorporate
coarse recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) and coarse recycled glass aggregates (RGA) …

Utilization of polymer concrete composites for a circular economy: A comparative review for assessment of recycling and waste utilization

H Alhazmi, SAR Shah, MK Anwar, A Raza, MK Ullah… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Polymer composites have been identified as the most innovative and selective materials
known in the 21st century. Presently, polymer concrete composites (PCC) made from …

Numerical modeling to predict the impact of granular glass replacement on mechanical properties of mortar

SA Ahmad, SK Rafiq - Asian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Construction production (industry) is the biggest natural resource user, and environmental
sustainability is threatened. The environmental and economic concern is the most important …