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  • New Synthetic Fiber Material to Improve Concrete Ductility
    News - 5 Jan 2010
    The fourth Empa Innovation prize, with its 5000 Swiss Franks endowment, has been awarded this year to Josef Kaufmann, Joern Luebben und Walter Trindler. Together with fiber specialist Eugen Schwitter...
  • Highlighting CarbiCrete’s Sustainable Green Concrete
    Article - 6 Nov 2023
    Concrete and cement manufacture is a highly environmentally damaging process, being responsible for nearly a tenth of total global carbon emissions. It is resource intensive, using vast amounts of...
  • Why Use Recycled CO2 in Fresh Concrete?
    Article - 29 Nov 2022
    Decarbonizing the construction industry is currently a central research focus. Engineers and scientists have extensively explored innovative strategies to reduce carbon emissions and consequent...
  • Using Ceramic Waste as a Concrete Aggregate
    Article - 13 Jun 2022
    At present, ceramic waste use is limited in the construction industry due to a lack of understanding. In fact, ceramic waste matches or can improve the performance of other common aggregates used for...
  • A to Z of Green Building Materials
    Article - 16 May 2022
    Growing evidence for anthropogenic climate change has forced industries to work to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Several strategies have been explored in the construction industry of late,...
  • Enhancing Cement with Organic Waste
    Article - 3 May 2022
    Enhancing traditional construction materials with waste products has become a research focus in the construction industry in recent decades to meet the challenges of modern society.
  • Non-Destructive Testing in Construction
    Article - 26 Sep 2019
    Non-destructive testing plays a key role in construction as it ensures materials and joining processes during fabrication and erection phases are of the highest quality.
  • The Impact of Green Concrete on Buildings
    Article - 26 Mar 2019
    On the whole, concrete is a fairly sustainable material and it has a number of environmentally-friendly benefits.
  • The Chemical Composition of Concrete
    Article - 4 Mar 2019
    This article takes a look at the chemical composition of concrete.
  • Nanomaterials and Their Use as Construction Materials
    Article - 8 Jan 2019
    This article explores the use of nanomaterials as construction materials in the building industry.
Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

With an increase in the pressure to decarbonize the built environment and build more carbon-neutral buildings, the reduction of embodied carbon has become of great importance.

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

AZoBuild talks to Professors Noguchi and Maruyama about their research and development of Calcium Carbonate Concrete (CCC), a new material that has the potential to cause a sustainable revolution in the construction industry.

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