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Sustainable Infrastructure Materials: Challenges and Opportunities
Author(s) -
PourGhaz Mohammad
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of applied ceramic technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1744-7402
pISSN - 1546-542X
DOI - 10.1111/ijac.12083
Subject(s) - carbon footprint , sustainable development , business , construction engineering , environmental planning , engineering ethics , engineering , political science , greenhouse gas , environmental science , ecology , law , biology
The recent quest for developing new low carbon footprint construction materials to lower the environmental emissions and implications of infrastructure has imposed many challenges and has created many opportunities for research and development in academia and industrial sectors. The present paper, discusses and summaries these challenges and opportunities and provides a synopsis of the ideas presented in the I nfrastructure sessions of the F ourth I nternational C ongress on C eramics ( ICC 4). This paper also discusses recent advances in the development of sustainable infrastructure materials.