Download pdf
Research on the sustainable materials in building construction
- 1 University of Southampton
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The construction industry has historically contributed to the waste of resources, energy use, and carbon emissions. Concrete and cement, the most common materials in the construction industry, are used in almost every building. However, the amount of carbon dioxide produced by conventional concrete and cement has an irreversible negative impact on the environment. To lessen the damaging environmental effects of these problems, many researchers have worked on sustainable materials. These problems have fueled research into sustainable building materials to reduce its negative environmental impacts. This study focuses on analysing the properties and applications of four sustainable building materials now used in the construction industry, namely polymer concrete, cement stabilised rammed earth, bamboo fibre geopolymer and waste steel slag. The researchers realised that for sustainable development, alternative materials and methods are to be found to reduce the dependence on traditional resources. Most of these four materials have sustainable materials added to traditional building materials and the emergence of these new materials provides more options for sustainable construction.
Keywords
Polymer Concrete, Cement Stabilized Rammed Earth, Geopolymer- Bamboo Composite, Steel Slag, Sustainable Construction Materials
[1]. Miyatake Y 1996 Technology development and sustainable construction J. Manag. Eng. 12(4) 23–7
[2]. Danso H 2018 Identification of Key Indicators for sustainable construction materials Adv. Mater. Sci. Eng. 1–7
[3]. Bedi R, Chandra R and Singh S P 2013 Mechanical properties of polymer concrete J. Compos. 1-13
[4]. Abdel-Fattah H, El-Hawary M M 1999 Flexural behavior of polymer concrete Constr. Build. Mater. 13(5) 253–62
[5]. Dehghani Najvani M A, Heras Murcia D, Soliman E and Reda Taha MM 2023 Early-age strength and failure characteristics of 3D printable polymer concrete Constr. Build. Mater. 394 132119
[6]. Kiruthika C, Lavanya Prabha S and Neelamegam M 2021 Different aspects of polyester polymer concrete for sustainable construction Mater. Today Proc. 43 1622–1625
[7]. adtrak.admin 2022 EasyMix Concrete UK Ltd. What is Polymer Concrete? Available from: https://www.easymixconcrete.com/news/what-is-polymer-concrete/
[8]. Venkatarama Reddy B V and Prasanna Kumar P 2010 Embodied energy in cement stabilised rammed earth walls Energy. Build. 42(3) 380–385
[9]. Zhang X and Nowamooz H 2023 Chemo-thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of a cement-stabilized rammed earth wall in interaction with the environment and underground soil Eng Struct. 293:116638
[10]. Kariyawasam K and Jayasinghe C 2016 Cement stabilized rammed earth as a sustainable construction material Constr. Build. Mater. 15(105) 519–527
[11]. Jayasinghe C, Kamaladasa N 2007 Compressive strength characteristics of cement stabilized rammed earth walls Constr. Build. Mater. 21(11) 1971–1976
[12]. Sá Ribeiro R A, Sá Ribeiro M G, Sankar K and Kriven W M2016 Geopolymer-bamboo composite – A novel sustainable construction material Constr. Build. Mater. 123 501–507
[13]. Duxson P, Fernández-Jiménez A, Provis J L, Lukey G C, Palomo A and Van Deventer J S J 2007 Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art J. Mater. Sci. 42(9) 2917–2933
[14]. Turner L K and Collins F G 2013 Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) emissions: A comparison between geopolymer and OPC cement concrete Constr. Build. Mater. 43 125–130
[15]. Riofrio A, Cornejo M and Baykara H 2022 Environmental performance of bamboo fibers and sugarcane bagasse reinforced metakaolin-based geopolymers Case Stud. Constr. Mater. 17 1-13
[16]. Kumar V P and Vasugi V 2020 Bamboo materials in cement, geopolymer and reinforced concrete as sustainable solutions for better tomorrow IOP Conf. Ser. Earth. Environ. Sci. 573(1) 012036
[17]. Song Q, Guo M Z, Wang L and Ling T C 2021 Use of steel slag as sustainable construction materials: A review of accelerated carbonation treatment Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 173 105740
[18]. Yüksel İ 2017 A review of steel slag usage in construction industry for sustainable development Environ. Dev. Sustain. 19(2) 369–384
[19]. Wang Q, Yan P, Yang J and Zhang B 2013 Influence of steel slag on mechanical properties and durability of concrete Constr. Build. Mater. 47 1414–1420
Cite this article
Yu,X. (2024). Research on the sustainable materials in building construction. Applied and Computational Engineering,60,119-125.
Data availability
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
Disclaimer/Publisher's Note
The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s). EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content.
About volume
Volume title: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
© 2024 by the author(s). Licensee EWA Publishing, Oxford, UK. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and
conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Authors who
publish this series agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the series right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this
series.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the series's published
version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial
publication in this series.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and
during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See
Open access policy for details).