Briefing: How to research and publish new concrete ingredients Available to Purchase

Almost half of the papers submitted to this journal involve the use of a secondary material as a component of a cementitious mix. This is not unusual – the same proportion has been observed from papers submitted to the Sustainable Construction Materials conference scheduled for 2010. The published literature now includes papers that describe tests on the inclusion of hundreds of different materials in concrete.

The reasons for this are easy to understand. The introductions to many papers often comment on carbon dioxide emissions from cement manufacture. Added to this are the environmental impacts of the extraction of the raw...