The past and future of sustainable concrete: A critical review and new strategies on cement-based materials

J de Brito, R Kurda - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Recycling of contaminated waste glass in ultra-high performance concrete: Impurities impact

X Zhao, JX Lu, X Lv, W Tian, M Cyr… - … and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
The feasibility of recycling clean waste glass in construction products has been
demonstrated. However, the direct utilization of contaminated waste glass from consumed …

Material circularity potential for construction materials–The case of transportation infrastructure in India

P Mhatre, VV Gedam, S Unnikrishnan - Resources Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The construction of new buildings and infrastructural projects across the globe poses
numerous challenges in terms of material extraction, availability of resources, disposal of …

Achieving carbon utilization and storage (CUS) in cement-based materials with wet-grinding carbonated concrete slurry waste

J Yang, H Zhao, X He, J Zeng, Y Su, Y Li, H Qi… - Cement and Concrete …, 2024 - Elsevier
Concrete slurry waste (CSW) is a kind of slurry waste with high water content and high
alkalinity, discharged during the industrial ready-mixed concrete production process. To …

Influence of replacing Portland cement with three different concrete sludge wastes

JV Martins, DCS Garcia, MTP Aguilar… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Ready-mixed concrete manufacturing consumes a lot of cement and generates millions of m
3 of concrete sludge waste (CSW). It is known that CSW is heterogeneous and has different …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of Mortars Incorporating Concrete Washing Fines: Impact on Mechanical Properties, Microstructure and Carbon Footprint

B Haddad, F Alassaad, H Affan, A Mohamad… - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study examines the potential use of wash fines, a waste product from concrete plant
cleaning, as supplementary cementing materials (SCMs) in mortars. The main objective is to …

Engineered Blended Thermoactivated Recycled Cement: A Study on Reactivity, Water Demand, Strength-Porosity, and CO2 Emissions

M Zanovello, VM John, CE White… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Annually, 1 Gt of cement waste is produced, constituting one-fourth of recent cement
production and surpassing the availability of most supplementary cementitious materials …

Simple way to model the mechanical properties of concretes with recycled concrete aggregates

LC Machado, BL Damineli, MS Rebmann… - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Elsevier
Researchers have made efforts to model the mechanical properties of concretes with
recycled aggregates joining large research databases. The replacement ratio criterion of …

[PDF][PDF] Pesquisa setorial ABRECON 2020: a reciclagem de resíduos de construção e demolição no Brasil

SC Angulo, LS Oliveira, L Machado - 2022 - repositorio.usp.br
Nós somos a maior entidade do setor de Resíduos da Construção e Demolição (RCD) do
Brasil com mais de dez anos trabalhando na promoção da reciclagem de resíduos da …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable resource recovery from hydrated waste cement for calcium carbonate and silica extraction: Circular economy in construction

P Chindaprasirt, V Sata, P Jitsangiam, K Nuithitikul… - Results in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapidly expanding infrastructure sector in Thailand has boosted the consumption of
ready-mix concrete, generating significant quantities of hydrated waste cement (HWC) …