Opportunities and risks of alternative, sustainable cements
What about the cement transition?
For several generations now, Portland cements have constituted the basis for the concrete model of success, a building material which, like no other, characterizes our environment and of which approximately 11 billion m³ have been used up in building last year. Why then should we work with other cements than with conventional Portland cements in the future? Can the future cements not just be that of the past?
A quite essential reason for a needed cement transition are the substantial CO2 emissions which are associated with the production of classic Portland cement (1 t of Portland cement means...
