concrete – The InfoGreenGlobal https://infogreenglobal.com The InfoGreenGlobal Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:16:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Improved buildings for major reductions in their lifetime carbon footprint https://infogreenglobal.com/improved-buildings-for-major-reductions-in-their-lifetime-carbon-footprint/ https://infogreenglobal.com/improved-buildings-for-major-reductions-in-their-lifetime-carbon-footprint/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:04:25 +0000 http://infogreenglobal.com/?p=3681 The construction and operation of buildings accounts for approximately 40 percent of all U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases. The most-used building material in the world, concrete, is used to construct many of the nation’s homes and office buildings — but a new MIT report says a variety of measures could drastically reduce, and ultimately even […]

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