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Seattle General Contractor | Seattle Remodeling Contractor — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:04:37 +0000

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Ashlyn Eric — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:26:10 +0000

Very helpful! Look forward to reading more

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Comment on Hire a licensed contractor by General contractors

General contractors — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:18:16 +0000

That’s an interesting article. I just wondered if you could tell me where to find more info on this topic ?

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Comment on Concrete Is Sustainable, Durable â€” and Green by Mark Drechsler

Mark Drechsler — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:34:32 +0000

How wrong you are.

Portland Cement is responsible of over 5% of global greeen house emmissions with over 0.7t of CO2 emitted per tonne of Portland Cement produced. Why not consider geopolymer concrete which can reduce these GHG emissions by up to 80% using fly ash and slags?
The production of Portland cement is energy intensive and requires the use of diminishing reserves of raw materials such as limestone, coal and clay. Using green fuels only provides minor improvements, to make major inprovements you need to revisit the whole process and look at geopolymer concrete or other alternative concretes (but then the cement companies would not like that and thats why they keep saying they are green when the can be much greener).

Check out this New Scientist article and other info on geopolymer concrete. Australia is leading the way.

http://www.geopolymers.com.au/

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19726405.700-hopes-build-for-ecoconcrete.html

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2244816.htm

Regards
Mark Drechsler BSc(Hons) MBA
Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia

Comment on Concrete Is Sustainable, Durable â€” and Green by Brown Bess

Brown Bess — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:04:14 +0000

Yes, let’s burn all our wastes in cement plants that were never designed to do that job. That don’t have to landfill their waste residues, that can emit much more air pollution, that can spread those wastes all over creation though cement use. Great idea!

And when we do this, let’s make sure that all cement plant executives are required to have their plants’ exhaust vented directly into their homes.

Comment on Hire a licensed contractor by smileeo

smileeo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:36:58 +0000

good news .