The Path to Green Concrete. Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering

Authors

Jorge de Brito Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Jorge de Brito is Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at the Instituto Superior T�cnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was Head of the ICIST Research Centre from 2009 to 2012. Francisco Agrela Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Cordoba, Spain. Francisco Agrela is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cordoba, Spain. He received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Cordoba. He is the author of over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has published a chapter in the Handbook of Recycled Concrete and Demolition Waste (Woodhead). He collaborates with several journals as reviewer, including Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), Waste Management (Elsevier), Materials and Design (Elsevier), Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Elsevier). He belongs to the RAC committee of RILEM and AFN-20 of TRB. He has visited and collaborated with several Universities such as the TU Delft, University Polytechnic of Hong Kong, University of Granada, and IST of Lisbon. Rui Vasco Silva Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), Instituto Superior T�cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Rui Vasco Silva is a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his PhD on the use of recycled aggregates derived from construction, demolition, and excavation waste in the production of structural concrete. He is a member of the CERIS Research and Development Unit, hosted by IST-ID, and an honorary member of the CIB Student Chapter at IST. He has notable experience in FCT-funded Research Projects and is currently Managing Director of the Rinopolycrete project PTDC/ECI-CON/29196/2017 and is Principal Investigator of the upcoming research project ECO2Alkrete. He is the author of several publications concerning sustainable construction and is currently researching other approaches that can further decrease the environmental impact of concrete, namely reactive magnesium oxide, alkali-activated materials, municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ashes and electric arc furnace slag.