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  • Treatments Used to Improve Quality of Building Ceramics
    Article - 20 May 2020
    Modern building ceramics are often treated to achieve a range of special properties and to improve their overall quality.
  • Carrying out Spectroscopy on Cement-Based Materials
    Article - 26 Feb 2020
    In construction, the analysis of materials for safety and quality control purposes critical.
  • Assessing Temperature Effects on Cement Paste
    Article - 28 Feb 2020
    Portland cement is the most common type of cement. It is used globally as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.
  • NDT Used for Pavement Construction Quality Tests
    Article - 20 Feb 2020
    Often, the most comprehensive approach to analyzing something is to take it apart, but that may not be feasible when it comes to pavement construction.
  • An Analysis of Greenhouse Gases from the Construction Industry
    Article - 13 Feb 2020
    A significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions is produced by building operations, such as their heating and cooling.
  • What are Sustainable Energy Buildings?
    Article - 27 Aug 2019
    Sustainability is promoted in terms of how buildings are designed and constructed, thus improving the quality of building and their impact on the environment.
  • Building With Lime
    Article - 8 Jul 2019
    Lime is one of the oldest building materials in existence and can be used to make many different types of mortar. Find out about the different types of lime, including lime putty and hydraulic lime.
  • What is Hempcrete?
    Article - 8 Jul 2019
    Hemp, a plant that is a strain of the Cannabis sativa plant species, can be used to create an environmentally friendly building material.
  • Geopolymers as an Alternative to Cement
    Article - 21 Jun 2017
    For many construction industry leaders, including researchers, the fact that up to 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions (more than global air traffic each year) comes from cement production means...
  • Analyzing the Lifecycle of Sustainable Building Materials
    Article - 14 Jun 2024
    This article explores the environmental impacts of various sustainable building materials using life-cycle assessment (LCA). Materials such as recycled plastic waste, natural earthen substances,...
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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