The Sustainable Concrete Guide - Strategies and Examples

The Sustainable Concrete Guide - Strategies and Examples is the first-ever comprehensive resource on concrete and sustainability and provides insight on specific strategies for the best use of concrete in high-performance, long-lasting, green buildings.  Includes case studies, technical data and references and numerous practices that can be implemented immediately.

The guide is divided into three parts.

Part 1 of the guide includes information on “Concrete Basics for Sustainability,” which outlines the uses of concrete as the most widely used building material in the world.

Part 2 of the guide is titled “Considerations for Best Use of Concrete for Sustainable Structures,” and it contains 11 chapters on specific uses of concrete for sustainable structures. Topics include:

• Chapter 1 Carbon footprint
• Chapter 2 Thermal transmission
• Chapter 3 Thermal mass and storage
• Chapter 4 Longevity and service life
• Chapter 5 Stormwater management 
• Chapter 6 Human factors and the living/working environment
• Chapter 7 Safety and security
• Chapter 8 Reduce, reuse, recycle
• Chapter 9 Economic impact
• Chapter 10 Resilience with climate change
• Chapter 11 Compatibility with other innovative sustainability strategies

Part 3 of the guide, titled Beyond Sustainable Rating Systems: Project Profiles, features 12 specific construction projects throughout the US; all of which utilize sustainable concrete practices and techniques. Included are profiles of three specific types of structures: parking structures and parking lots; single-family and multi-family residential structures; and commercial, institutional and industrial.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrea Schokker is a professor and head of the civil engineering department at the University of Minnesota Duluth.  She is also a member of the Board of Direction for the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and is active in many ACI committees including Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 423, Prestressed Concrete, and a subcommittee of Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code. She is the chair of ACI Committee 130, Sustainability of Concrete.

Also an integral part in the creation of the book is the editorial review panel of the U.S. Green Concrete Council. Current ACI president Florian Barth serves as chair of the editorial review panel. Other members include Michael Deane, vice president and chief sustainability officer at Turner Construction Company; Kevin MacDonald, vice president of engineering services at Cemstone; Aris Papadopoulos, CEO of Titan America; Michael Paul, lead structural engineer and senior consultant for Duffield Associates; Richard Stehly, vice president of ACI and principal of American Engineering Testing; and Wayne Trusty, president of Athena Institute International. The U.S. Green Concrete Council was established in 2009, with the purpose of disseminating information on sustainable concrete. The organization aims to satisfy the immediate demand for credible resources on the role of concrete in sustainable buildings and to facilitate the development of additional sustainability-related consensus documents. USGCC is a division of Creative Association Management (CAM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). The Sustainable Concrete Guide - Strategies and Examples is the first in a series of sustainable concrete guides to be published by USGCC.