Fine recycled concrete aggregate as a material replacement in concrete production

Zaki, Zahir and Sheikh Khalid, Faisal and Shahidan, Shahiron (2020) Fine recycled concrete aggregate as a material replacement in concrete production. In: Advanced Concrete Technology and Green Materials. Penerbit UTHM, pp. 79-90. ISBN 978-967-2916-42-0

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Abstract

As a fast and rapid growing nation, Malaysia undergoes a lot of development especially in construction field. Most of the building nowadays are being made mainly using concrete as it provides many favorable features such as satisfactory compressive strength, durability, availability, versatility and cost effectiveness. However, in pursuing the development era, sometimes the authorities overlooked about the construction and demolition (C&D) waste that had been created along the development progress. Construction and demolition waste is becoming a vital issue especially to the environmental aspect in many large cities in the world (Chen et al., 2002). Shen [1] describe C&D waste as the waste which generated from renovation, site clearing, demolition, construction, roadwork, land excavation and civil and building construction. Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste constitutes a major portion of total solid waste production in the world, and most of it is used in landfills ..

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Concrete; Concrete construction; Sustainable construction; Government publications--Malaysia
Subjects:	T Technology > TH Building construction > TH1000-1725 Systems of building construction. Including fireproof construction, concrete construction
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering Technology > Department of Civil Engineering Technology
Depositing User:	Mrs. Siti Noraida Miskan
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2022 09:15
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2022 09:15
URI:	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/3300

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