Low Carbon Concrete Possibilities: EPD and Regulations in Northern Periphery and Arctic
Concrete is one of the most common building materials in the Northern Periphery and Arctic, and therefore we should pay attention to its quality while reducing its carbon footprint. The concrete industry has established many measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions from concrete, as stated in the...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/28785 2023-05-15T14:57:13+02:00 Low Carbon Concrete Possibilities: EPD and Regulations in Northern Periphery and Arctic Novakova, Iveta Perumal, Priyadharshini Cwirzen, Andrzej Wallevik, Olafur Haralds 2023-02-14 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28785 https://doi.org/10.3390/materproc2023013014 eng eng MDPI MDPI Materials Proceedings FRIDAID 2128412 https://doi.org/10.3390/materproc2023013014 2673-4605 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28785 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.3390/materproc2023013014 2023-03-23T00:04:51Z Concrete is one of the most common building materials in the Northern Periphery and Arctic, and therefore we should pay attention to its quality while reducing its carbon footprint. The concrete industry has established many measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions from concrete, as stated in the environmental product declaration (EPD). The most significant contributor is cement (common dose between 250 and 600 kg per 1 m3 of concrete) in a concrete binder. Aside from the use of alternative fuels for cement production, new alternative materials for cement replacement are being sought. Those materials are called supplementary cementitious materials and mainly originate from industrial waste streams. Some of the materials are already standard and limited by the maximum allowed replacement, and some are new and still under investigation. The benefits and limitations of low-carbon concrete regulations in Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland are demonstrated on three different concrete mixes in this article. The sorting of a reference mix and two low-carbon concrete mixes according to 4 different systems showed the informative character of the Icelandic system and the underestimation of possibilities for the carbon footprint of concrete in the Swedish classification system. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Iceland University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway 10th MATBUD’2023 Scientific-Technical Conference 14 |
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Concrete is one of the most common building materials in the Northern Periphery and Arctic, and therefore we should pay attention to its quality while reducing its carbon footprint. The concrete industry has established many measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions from concrete, as stated in the environmental product declaration (EPD). The most significant contributor is cement (common dose between 250 and 600 kg per 1 m3 of concrete) in a concrete binder. Aside from the use of alternative fuels for cement production, new alternative materials for cement replacement are being sought. Those materials are called supplementary cementitious materials and mainly originate from industrial waste streams. Some of the materials are already standard and limited by the maximum allowed replacement, and some are new and still under investigation. The benefits and limitations of low-carbon concrete regulations in Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland are demonstrated on three different concrete mixes in this article. The sorting of a reference mix and two low-carbon concrete mixes according to 4 different systems showed the informative character of the Icelandic system and the underestimation of possibilities for the carbon footprint of concrete in the Swedish classification system. |
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Low Carbon Concrete Possibilities: EPD and Regulations in Northern Periphery and Arctic |
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Low Carbon Concrete Possibilities: EPD and Regulations in Northern Periphery and Arctic |
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Low Carbon Concrete Possibilities: EPD and Regulations in Northern Periphery and Arctic |
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Low Carbon Concrete Possibilities: EPD and Regulations in Northern Periphery and Arctic |
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Low Carbon Concrete Possibilities: EPD and Regulations in Northern Periphery and Arctic |
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low carbon concrete possibilities: epd and regulations in northern periphery and arctic |
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