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New concrete vaulted floor suggests path to cutting carbon emissions

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The multidisciplinary team has completed a full-scale demo of the floor, built inside a Cambridge University Civil Engineering Department facility, and hopes the innovation will be adopted by the construction industry to reduce its carbon emissions. Demo shows minimum 60 per cent reduction in emissions.

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Six material innovations aimed at slashing concrete's outsized carbon footprint

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To help buy the construction industry time to scale up viable alternatives, other researchers are looking at slashing the embodied carbon footprint of buildings by developing clever construction techniques to reduce the amount of concrete needed in their construction. Seratech by Sam Draper and Barney Shanks. Find out more about Carbicrete ›.

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