Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies

Proceedings of the Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies, 11-13 June 2007, Coventry, United Kingdom

Yoon-Moon Chun, Peter Claisse, Tarun R. Naik, Eshmaiel Ganjian, Yoon-Moon Chun, Peter Claisse, Tarun R. Naik, Eshmaiel Ganjian

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780415446891
• eBook ISBN: 9781000155426
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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 June 11th - 13th, 2007, to highlight case studies and research on new and innovative ways of achieving sustainability of construction materials and technologies. This book presents selected, important contributions made at the conference. Over 190 papers from over 45 countries were accepted for presentation at the conference, of which approximately 100 selected papers are published in this book. The rest of the papers are published in two supplementary books.

Topics covered in this book include: sustainable alternatives to natural sand, stone, and Portland cement in concrete; sustainable use of recyclable resources such as fly ash, ground municipal waste slag, pozzolan, rice-husk ash, silica fume, gypsum plasterboard (drywall), and lime in construction; sustainable mortar, concrete, bricks, blocks, and backfill; the economics and environmental impact of sustainable materials and structures; use of construction and demolition wastes, and organic materials (straw bale, hemp, etc.) in construction; sustainable use of soil, timber, and wood products; and related sustainable construction and rehabilitation technologies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Contributions of the concrete industry toward sustainable development
• Site trials of concrete with a very low carbon footprint
• Sustainability of the cement and concrete industries
• Closed Cycle Construction – A process for the separation and reuse of the total C&D waste stream
• Effect of GRP industrial waste on durability of cement mortars
• Engineering properties of oil palm shell (ops) hybrid concrete for lightweight precast floor slab
• Durability of concrete mixed with fine recycled aggregates
• An experimental investigation on the viability of using fine concrete recycled aggregate in concrete production
• Effect of different recycled aggregates on mortar performance
• Researching recycled aggregate structural concrete for buildings
• Recycling of concrete in precast concrete production
• Concrete paving products made with recycled demolition aggregates
• Using tires rubber waste for modification of concrete properties
• Employment of waste sand to compose fibre reinforced cement composites
• Portland cement concrete using high levels of microfines
• 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
• Achieving sustainable construction through use of fly ash in concrete – An Indian experience
• “Eco-pad” in-situ mixed concrete pavement with a 93–100% total recycled content
• Properties of shotcrete with highly functional fly ash used as dust-reducing agent
• The use of fly ash for enhancing durability and sustainability
• Cracking behavior of concrete containing fly ash due to drying shrinkage
• Potential uses for coal combustion by-products for sustainable construction materials
• Properties of calcium enriched fly ash and its utilization in concrete
• Production of gypsum products from waste battery acid
• Use of waste gypsum as construction low strength materials
• Development of novel cementitious binders using plasterboard waste and pozzolanic materials for road bases
• Investigation into the use of cement stabilised gypsum waste as a backfill material
• The importance of mixture proportioning in sustainable construction
• Research and development of new building materials on the basis of industrial waste materials in the field of rehabilitation of concrete structures
• Development of an optimal high-performance concrete mixture for Tennessee bridge decks
• Establishing optimum mixture proportions for concrete durability using recyclable by-products
• Effects of cement and mineral admixture on migration of chloride ions and generation of hydration heat in concrete
• Hemp as a filler of cement-bonded particleboards
• Chemical and physical characterization of coarse bauxite residue (red sand) for concrete making
• Effect of ground perlite incorporation on the performance of blended cements
• Use of Magnesium Oxide-cement binders for the production of blocks with lightweight aggregates
• Leaching behavior and environmental impact of concrete manufactured with biomass ashes
• The application of paper sludge ash to extremely stiff consistency concrete product
• Alkali-activation of natural pozzolan for geopolymer cement production
• Effect of spent catalyst, obtained from the catalytic cracking of petroleum, on the compressive strength of concrete
• Sulfate resistance of mortars with and without silica fume and natural pozzolan
• Strength of mortar and concrete using fine powder of molten slag made from municipal waste as a cementitious material
• Use of supplementary cementing materials for cost-effective repair of marine corrosion damage
• Change of concrete properties due to impressed current of cathodic protection
• Advanced calcareous ceramics via novel green processing and supercritical carbonation
• Supercritical carbonation of Casamic
• Investigations on the efficiency of Enhanced Porosity Concrete in Containing vehicular oil spills
• CO2 uptake by concrete hardened in a simulated flue gas
• Early hydration of calcium sulfoaluminate-based cements for structural applications
• Reactive magnesium oxide cements: properties and applications
• Bacterial carbonate precipitation reduces the permeability of cementitious materials
• Sustainable, ‘green’ solutions for concrete pavement rehabilitation. A feasibility (pilot) study
• Effect of loading level, cooling regime, polypropylene fibers, and coating type on the behavior of high strength concrete columns in fire
• Effect of simulated desert climate and sustained moderate temperature on some properties of concrete with and without polypropylene fibers
• Rheological and engineering properties of SCLC
• Coefficient of moisture contraction – A new concrete material parameter
• Thaumasite sulphate attack on self-compacting concrete with limestone filler
• Effect of polypropylene fiber addition on restrained plastic shrinkage cracking of SCC
• High performance grout connection for pre-cast concrete structures
• Sustainable concrete arch bridges
• Determination of the amount of hydrated cement in hardened concrete and mortar by gravimetric thermal analysis on macro and semi-micro scales
• Assessment of the fracture of three-point bending concrete specimens
• The economics of recycling in the US construction industry
• An analysis of environmental and fiscal impacts of recycling during Kern Center construction
• Impact of regulations on fly ash marketing in the United States
• Quantifying VOCs in products off-gassed during the construction of MSOE’s Kern Center and proposed strategies for reducing employee exposure
• Relative thermal performance of three test buildings – thermal mass v insulation
• LEED-NC version 2.2 rating system applications of common structural materials
• A life cycle perspective on recycling construction materials (The most sustainable materials may be the ones we already have)
• Demonstrating how plasterboard can be collected more efficiently on construction and demolition sites in the UK
• Extending experimental data to investigate phosphogypsume use in light brick by Artificial Neural Networks
• Opportunities for wealth generation through small scale sustainable building materials production
• Electrokinetic treatment for freezing and thawing damage mitigation within limestone
• Carbonation and hydration of mortars with calcium hydroxide and calcium silicate binders
• 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
• A rationale for the production of Devon Cob to ensure performance
• Mixture proportioning and strength prediction technique for soil mortar made using soil generated at construction sites
• Utilization of olive oil liquid waste as an additive to roadway construction
• Investigation into the use of cement stabilised sand and silty sand in road pavement construction in Bangladesh
• Monitoring of strawbale and non-food-crop based walling systems
• Development of sustainable forms of construction
• Sustain the chapel building – a demonstration of sustainable materials renovation
• Environmental science in building construction: new course development for undergraduate students
• Cardboard: An innovative construction material
• Improvement mechanism of bondability in uf-bonded reed board by pf
• Sustainable construction in Yellowstone Park: A case study
• Ultrasound assisted crystallisation of synthetic gypsum from used battery acid
• Manufactured aggregate from waste materials
• Evaluation and minimization of life cycle environmental risk of concrete structures
• Comparison between mechanical properties of SCC containing Rice-Husk Ash and normal concrete
• Comparative study between properties of SCC containing lime-stone powder and NC
• Compressive response of plastered straw bale wall panels
• Author index