The Little Green Book of Concrete

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On the way to zero carbon

Uses cementitious materials from a responsible industry...

Between 1990 and 2018 CO2 emissions from cement manufacturing were reduced by 19,2%, directly improving the carbon footprint of concrete. The precast industry works hard to improve the efficiency of cement use by maximising hydration and by optimising cement content to reduce embodied CO2. Other binders with much lower embodied CO2 than portland cement can be used; today the use of other cementitious materials such as ground granulated blast furnace slag and pulverised fuel ash is a common practice.

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