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ith growing industrialization and urbanization, there is a corresponding growth in world
demand for clean air and water, waste disposal, safe and rapid transport of people and …

204 Reports Structural Engineering International 3/2004 of their resources. But the self-
evident principles of sustainable development are now being accepted also by a growing …

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 …

Concrete technology for a sustainable development in the 21st century focuses on the
problems and challenges for the concrete industry today and in the future with particular …

Concrete is the largest volume material used by man and is irreplaceable for innumerable
large infrastructure developments. From the point of view of natural resources, ecology and …

Cement-based concrete has excellent properties as a construction material, and the raw
materials of cement rocks, and limestone and clay are bountiful. Yet its production generates …

If this year's expected global output of cement were somehow poured across Manhattan
island, the 3.4-billion-tonne mass would solidify into a monolith about 14 metres high. If the …

Introduction: Sustainable Development and Concrete Technology oncrete is an
environmentally friendly material of choice for the construction of the world's vast …

Production of Portland cement is responsible for about seven percent of the world's
greenhouse gas emissions. The pressure to make the production of concrete more …