Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

G Habert, SA Miller, VM John, JL Provis… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
The use of cement and concrete, among the most widely used man-made materials, is under
scrutiny. Owing to their large-scale use, production of cement and concrete results in …

Fly ash-based eco-friendly geopolymer concrete: A critical review of the long-term durability properties

M Amran, S Debbarma, T Ozbakkaloglu - Construction and Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Since fly ash (FA) is widely available across the globe, which is used to produce the next
generation green concrete for the modern construction. The FA is a pozzolanic material with …

Cement substitution with secondary materials can reduce annual global CO2 emissions by up to 1.3 gigatons

IH Shah, SA Miller, D Jiang, RJ Myers - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Population and development megatrends will drive growth in cement production, which is
already one of the most challenging-to-mitigate sources of CO2 emissions. However …

[HTML][HTML] Circular Economy strategies for concrete: implementation and integration

ATM Marsh, APM Velenturf, SA Bernal - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070

J Rissman, C Bataille, E Masanet, N Aden… - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and
reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 is necessary to limit global …

Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the cement industry via value chain mitigation strategies

SA Miller, G Habert, RJ Myers, JT Harvey - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
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 …

Efficient use of cement and concrete to reduce reliance on supply-side technologies for net-zero emissions

T Watari, Z Cao, S Hata, K Nansai - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Decarbonization strategies for the cement and concrete sector have relied heavily on supply-
side technologies, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), masking opportunities for …

[HTML][HTML] A review on recent advances in the fabrication and evaluation of superhydrophobic concrete

Y Wu, L Dong, X Shu, Y Yang, W She, Q Ran - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water penetration can cause severe performance deterioration and even failure of concrete
constructions through various degradation mechanisms, such as chemical erosion, dry-wet …

Projecting future carbon emissions from cement production in developing countries

D Cheng, DM Reiner, F Yang, C Cui, J Meng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Achieving low-carbon development of the cement industry in the developing countries is
fundamental to global emissions abatement, considering the local construction industry's …

Lightweight concrete from a perspective of sustainable reuse of waste byproducts

MF Junaid, Z ur Rehman, M Kuruc, I Medveď… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional waste management schemes raise various environmental, social, and economic
concerns; thus, require productive replacements. A large amount of natural resource is …