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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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This resulted in an estimated 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions for the team's first full-scale demo project, built inside Cambridge University 's Civil Engineering Department. Since concrete is the world's most widely consumed material after water [.] Find out more about concrete vaulted floors ›.

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