Managing the embodied carbon of precast concrete columns

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1192-1199

  Peng, Wu ^a   Sui Pheng, Low ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Concrete columns; Precast concrete

Indexed keywords

CARBON INVENTORIES; CARBON NEUTRALS; CONCRETE COLUMNS; CONSUMING MATERIALS; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; EVERYDAY LANGUAGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; PRE-CAST; PRECAST CONCRETE COLUMNS; PRODUCTION CYCLE; PUBLIC HOUSING; REGULATORY BODIES; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; SINGAPORE; SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION; HOUSING; RESEARCH;

PRECAST CONCRETE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLUMN; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 79961038374     PISSN: 08991561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0000287     Document Type: Article

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