1st Edition
Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies Proceedings of the Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies, 11-13 June 2007, Coventry, United Kingdom
816 Pages
by
CRC Press
816 Pages
by
CRC Press
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The construction materials industry is a major user of the world’s resources. While enormous progress has been made towards sustainability, the scope and opportunities for improvements are significant.
To further the effort for sustainable development, a conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies was held at Coventry University, Coventry, U.K., from... Read more
Preface
Topics include:
- Contributions of the concrete industry toward sustainable development
- An experimental investigation on the viability of using fine concrete recycled aggregate in concrete production
- Effect of different recycled aggregates on mortar performance
- Utilization of organo-modified reservoir sludge as fine aggregates in cement mortars
- Study on fly ash-saturation in cementitious materials
- Ultra fine fly ash concrete
- Strength of mortar and concrete using fine powder of molten slag made from municipal waste as a cementitious material
- Extending experimental data to investigate phosphogypsume use in light brick by Artificial Neural Networks
- Biostore: towards sustainable composite waste reuse
- Review of composting and anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste and a methodological proposal for a mid-size city
- Innovative use of clay backfill at the new Wembley Stadium, UK
- Compressive response of plastered straw bale wall panels
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Author index
Biography
Yoon-Moon Chun (University of Milwaukee, USA) (Edited by) , Peter Claisse (Coventry University, UK) (Edited by) , Tarun R. Naik (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA) (Edited by) , Eshmaiel Ganjian (Coventry University, UK) (Edited by)
