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Embodied carbon of concrete in buildings, Part 2: are the messages accurate?

Buildings and Cities
Volume 3 (2022): Issue 1
By: Alice Moncaster,  Tove Malmqvist,  Tim Forman,  Francesco Pomponi and  Jane Anderson  
Open Access
|May 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.199 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 21, 2022
Accepted on: May 4, 2022
Published on: May 25, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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Keywords:
buildings,
cement,
concrete,
construction industry,
embodied carbon,
greenhouse gas emissions,
life cycle assessment (LCA),
trade organisations,
whole-life carbon

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