The Path to Green Concrete

Jorge de Brito is Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was Head of the ICIST Research Centre from 2009 to 2012. Francisco Agrela is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cordoba, Spain. He received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Cordoba. He is the author of over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has published a chapter in the Handbook of Recycled Concrete and Demolition Waste (Woodhead). He collaborates with several journals as reviewer, including Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), Waste Management (Elsevier), Materials and Design (Elsevier), Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Elsevier). He belongs to the RAC committee of RILEM and AFN-20 of TRB. He has visited and collaborated with several Universities such as the TU Delft, University Polytechnic of Hong Kong, University of Granada, and IST of Lisbon. Rui Vasco Silva is a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his PhD on the use of recycled aggregates derived from construction, demolition, and excavation waste in the production of structural concrete. He is a member of the CERIS Research and Development Unit, hosted by IST-ID, and an honorary member of the CIB Student Chapter at IST. He has notable experience in FCT-funded Research Projects and is currently Managing Director of the Rinopolycrete project PTDC/ECI-CON/29196/2017 and is Principal Investigator of the upcoming research project ECO2Alkrete. He is the author of several publications concerning sustainable construction and is currently researching other approaches that can further decrease the environmental impact of concrete, namely reactive magnesium oxide, alkali-activated materials, municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ashes and electric arc furnace slag.

Section 1 - Developments on green supplementary cementitious materials 1. Reactive magnesia Miguel Bravo and Bruna A. Silva 2. Stainless Steel Slag Francisco Agrela Sainz and Julia Rosales 3. Alkali activation of slag Francisca Puertas 4. New and More Sustainable Paths for the Development of Alkali Activated Cements Nuno Cristelo, Jhonathan Rivera and Inés Garcia-Lodeiro 5. Alkali-activated aluminosilicate industrial wastes as alternative binders in precast paving blocks Rui Vasco Silva 6. Granulation of incinerated municipal solid waste bottom ash with one-part alkali activation technology Priyadharshini Perumal, Suman kumar Adhikary and Mirja Illikainen Section 2 - Construction, demolition and industrial wastes as aggregates in cementitious composites 7. 3D printing concrete with by-products Belén Gonzalez-Fonteboa 8. Steel slag aggregate in concrete Flora Faleschini, Mariano Angelo Zanini and Daniel Trento 9. Microtomography of eco-efficient concrete Carlos Thomas 10. Mining waste as aggregate for concrete Lina M. Trujillo López, Jesús Suárez-González, Carlos López-Colina, Ismael García, Miguel Serrano and Fernando Lopez Gayarre Section 3 - Advances on eco-efficient concrete 11. Ultra-high-performance concrete Caijun Shi and Xuanhan Zhang 12. Self-healing concrete Gurkan Yildirim and Behlul Furkan Ozel 13. Cellular concrete Maria Victoria Borrachero Sr. 14. Graphene in eco-efficient concrete Manuel Cruz 15. Nanoindentation of concrete with sustainable supplementary cementitious materials Wengui Li, Zhiyu Luo, Yipu Guo, Xuqun Lin, Xiaonan Wang, Hanbing Zhao and Xuanrui Zhang 16. Pervious concrete with alternative materials Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri and Avishreshth Singh