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Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH) at The Concrete Sustainability Hub was established in 2009 by the RMC Research & Education Foundation and the Portland Cement Association to accelerate emerging breakthroughs in concrete science and engineering and to transfer that science into practice. The research taking place at MIT CSH will focus on quantifying and enhancing the sustainable nature of concrete. Please click here to visit the MIT CSH main website. A webinar was held on October 25, 2011, providing an update on the research taking place at the CSH. The presentation slides may be accessed here (please note that the file is over 11MB) and the webinar may be viewed below:
Many resources are already available as a product of the research taking place at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub. The first two projects, “The Edge of Concrete: A Life Cycle Investigation of Concrete and Concrete Structures” and “From Liquid to Stone: The Genesis of Concrete” are both well underway. Early findings may be accessed below: Life Cycle Assessment Reports and Briefs Interim reports and periodic briefs on the Life Cycle Assessment Platform are published regularly and include: Homes: A Match for Concrete Innovation – February 2012 Roads: Smoothness Matters, But... – January 2012 Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Pavement Life Cycle – August 2011 Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Building Life Cycle – August 2011 The Effects of Inflation and Its Volatility on the Choice of Construction Alternatives – August 2011 Accounting for Inflation in LCCA – July 2011 When the Rubber Hits the Road – June 2011 Adopting a Life Cycle Perspective – April 2011 Designing for Sustainable Pavements – March 2011 Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings – December 2010 Life Cycle Assessment of Pavements – December 2010 Concrete Science One-Page Briefs Work is progressing quickly on the Concrete Science platform, as evidenced by one-page briefs that are published monthly on a variety of topics, including: Locking radionuclides in cement – January 2012 Holding It Together: C-S-H Cohesion – December 2011 Predicting Setting Times Bottom-Up – November 2011 Why Wet C-S-H is Weak – October 2011 When Concrete Takes (part of) the Heat – September 2011 ReaxFF Hydration of Clinker Surfaces – July 2011 Setting From Statistical Principles – June 2011 Clinker Grinding at Breaking Point – May 2011 What’s in Your Concrete? (Part 2) – April 2011 Clinker: When Impurities Matter – March 2011 What’s in Your Concrete? (Part 1) – February 2011 Toughness Simply by Scratching – January 2011 C-S-H: Water, Water Everywhere – December 2010 The Hidden Forces of Setting – November 2010 Quantum Clinker Engineering – October 2010 Locking Mercury into Concrete – October 2010 Fly Ash is Critical for C-A-S-H – September 2010 |
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