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1. The Sustainable Use of Concrete

   By Koji Sakai, Takafumi Noguchi

   Cement-based concrete has excellent properties as a construction material, and the raw materials of cement—rocks, and limestone and clay—are bountiful. Yet its production generates high quantities of CO2, making it a potentially unsustainable material. However, there are no alternatives to concrete...

   Published August 29th 2012 by CRC Press
2. Concrete Under Severe Conditions, Two Volume Set

   Edited by Pedro Castro-Borges, Eric I. Moreno, Koji Sakai, O. Gjorv, Nemkumar Banthia

   Global Climatic Change (GCC) is changing the way we manage and maintain our concrete infrastructure. For the last 15 years CONSEC conferences have strived to bring experts on a common platform to discuss and disseminate international expertise with respect to performance of concrete under severe...

   Published July 7th 2010 by CRC Press
3. Concrete Technology for a Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

   Edited by Odd E. Gjorv, Koji Sakai

   Concrete technology for a sustainable development in the 21st century focuses on the problems and challenges for the concrete industry today and in the future with particular emphasis on environmental consiousness. Primary topics include: the improvement of concretes service life to ease technical...

   Published December 22nd 1999 by CRC Press