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Alkali-activated concretes have been receiving increasingly attention as they are identified to be key components towards achieving sustainable construction in future. A detailed comparative environmental assessment study ...

Food production processes may have both positive and negative environmental sustainability impacts. This makes decision-making challenging in the transition towards more sustainable food production systems. In this paper, ...

The European Commission's ambitious construction and demolition waste (CDW) material recovery target has placed pressure on Finland to increase its CDW material recovery rate. It has been identified that using CDW fractions, ...

As computing power increases, more complex computational models are utilized for biomass supply system studies. The paper describes three commonly used modeling methods in this context, geographic information systems, ...

The capacity to calculate and communicate the beneficial environmental impact of products and services is lacking in scientific guidelines. To fill this gap, this article presents a new approach for calculating the carbon ...

Alkali-activated binders have been considered a low carbon alternative to cement and are produced by reacting aluminosilicate precursor with an alkali-activator. However, alkali-activators have been observed to be a major ...

Purpose Renewable energy produced from wind turbines and solar photovoltaics (PV) has rapidly increased its share in global energy markets. At the same time, interest in producing hydrocarbons via power-to-X (PtX) ...

Horse manure is often a cost for horse owners, and in most cases, it is underutilized when its status as biodegradable waste means that it could potentially be used in renewable energy production and serve as a source of ...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology was applied to assess five locally developed mix designs for a 20 m low-height noise barrier (LHNB) categorized as: precast Portland cement concrete (S0-baseline scenario), two precast ...

The modern world is facing unprecedented population growth and increasing demand for consumer goods which, in turn, causes a demand for an increasing supply of materials. At the same time, technological advancement has ...