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Towards sustainable concrete

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Paulo J. M. Monteiro, Sabbie A. Miller and Arpad Horvath provide an overview of the challenges and accomplishments in reducing the environmental burden of concrete production.

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Figure 1: Historical growth in infrastructure material demand as exemplified through per capita cement, steel and wood production.

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S. Kevan, K.E. Kurtis, C. Johnson, M.C.G. Juenger, J. Moehle, R. Myers, and R. Shahsavari are thanked for their help.

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  1. Paulo J. M. Monteiro and Arpad Horvath are in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA,

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  2. Sabbie A. Miller is at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA,

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  3. P.J.M.M. is also in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA,

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Monteiro, P., Miller, S. & Horvath, A. Towards sustainable concrete. Nature Mater 16, 698–699 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4930

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