Costas Georgopoulos, Andrew Minson ...
224 pages - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (March 17, 2014)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 111996864X - ISBN-13: 978-1119968641
The challenges facing humanity in the 21st
century include climate change, population growth, overconsumption of
resources, overproduction of waste and increasing energy demands. For
construction practitioners, responding to these challenges means
creating a built environment that provides accommodation and
infrastructure with better whole-life performance using lower volumes of
primary materials, less non-renewable energy, wasting less and causing
fewer disturbances to the natural environment. Concrete is ubiquitous
in the built environment. It is therefore essential that it is used in
the most sustainable way so practitioners must 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 developed by the
industry.
Sustainable Concrete Solutions serves
as an introduction to and an overview of the latest developments in
sustainable concrete construction. It provides useful guidance, with
further references, to students, researchers, academics and
practitioners of all construction disciplines who are faced with the
challenge of designing, specifying and constructing with concrete.
