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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #245 Transparent Concrete
Description: What would it mean to be able to look at a bag of concrete, and see its embodied carbon? That’s the goal of the new benchmark rating scheme for concrete, developed by the UK Low Carbon Concrete Group. It will allow suppliers, contractors and developers to consider the carbon footprint of projects, alongside cost and performance.
Novel material types—including ternary concretes and alkali-activated cementitious materials—promise to eliminate many, if not all, of the process emissions associated with producing clinker. But before customers will specify them, they need assurance of their performance. A new approach to con...