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Author(s): Costas Georgopoulos, Andrew Minson
ISBN(s): 9781306322416, 1306322413
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 12.69 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1306322413 
ISBN 13: 9781306322416
Author: Costas Georgopoulos, Andrew Minson

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.

Sustainable concrete solutions 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Sustainability and sustainable development
1.2 The role of the design team in sustainable development
1.3 Sustainability credentials of concrete
1.4 Book layout and context
References
2 Challenges and Responses
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Climate change
2.3 Environmental protection
2.4 Social progress
2.5 Economic growth
2.6 Regulatory responses
2.7 Summary
References
3 Conceptual Design of Buildings and Infrastructure
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Conceptual design of buildings
3.3 Conceptual design of infrastructure
3.4 Summary
References
4 Material Specification
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Assessing environmental impacts of materials
4.3 Responsible sourcing of materials
4.4 Cements and combinations
4.5 Aggregates
4.6 Water
4.7 Admixtures
4.8 Novel constituents
4.9 Reinforcement
4.10 Special concretes
4.11 Specification examples
4.12 Key guidance to specify sustainable concrete
4.13 Summary
Acknowledgements
References
5 Construction, Operation and End of Life
5.1 Construction
5.2 Operation
5.3 End of life
5.4 Summary
References
Appendix A: Thermal Mass
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Definition of thermal mass
A.3 How thermal mass works
A.4 How to take thermal mass into account in design
A.5 Measuring thermal mass
A.6 Difference between thermal mass and insulation
A.7 Case study of a code level 6 home
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix B: Biomass Substitution
B.1 Background
B.2 Product performance
B.3 Product Credentials
References
Appendix C: Choice of Concrete Slab Options
C.1 Introduction
C.2 Flat slabs
C.3 (Troughed) Ribbed and waffle slabs
C.4 Beams and slabs (one way or two way spanning)
C.5 Post-tensioned (PT) slabs
C.6 Hybrid Concrete Construction
C.7 Precast concrete
References
Appendix D: Example on Embodied CO2 for a Building Slab
D.1 Cradle to gate
D.2 Commentary on gate to site
D.3 Commentary on site to grave

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