Sustainable Concrete Solutions

This book serves as an introduction to and an overview of the latest developments in sustainable concrete construction. The challenges facing humanity today include climate change, population growth, overconsumption of resources, overproduction of waste and increasing energy demands and responding to these challenges means creating a built environment that provides accommodation and infrastructure with better whole-life performance. This built environment needs to use lower volumes of primary materials, less non-renewable energy, waste less and cause fewer disturbances to the natural environment. Concrete is ubiquitous in the built environment. It is therefore essential that sustainable concrete be used in the most sustainable way so practitioners become aware of the range of sustainable concrete solutions available for construction. While sustainable development has been embedded into engineering curricula, it can be difficult for students and academics to be fully aware of the innovations in sustainable construction that are currently being developed by the industry. The book provides useful guidelines and references to students, researchers, academics and practitioners of all construction disciplines.