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Sustainable building with precast prestressed ­concrete floor slabs

In construction of new buildings, not only the cost effectiveness and the environmental impact should be considered, but also the sustainability of the buildings. Thanks to the availability of technical data sheets and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), planners today can quickly and easily check individual quotations. In the final analysis, it is not the building products and materials themselves that decisively determine the sustainability of a building, but their use and impact during the course of a complete life cycle of a building. This is owing to the fact that a building should...

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