Sustainable Construction Materials

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Selected from more than 200 presentations at the March 2014 first Luso-Brazilian Conference of Sustainable Construction Materials, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, 54 papers cover materials and energy, materials and residues, natural materials, and materials and repair. The topics include the water resistance of mortars with lightweight aggregates, adapting rice husk ash for use as a pozzolanic materials, the carbonation resistance of high-volume fly ash concrete, ancient materials and techniques to improve earthen building durability, the acoustical behavior of hybrid composite sandwich panels, and the effects of anti-graffiti protection on concrete durability.

Ringgold Subjects:

— Civil engineering
— Construction
— Materials science
— Sustainability