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Paulo J. M. Monteiro, Sabbie A. Miller and Arpad Horvath provide an overview of the challenges and accomplishments in reducing the environmental burden of concrete production.

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Figure 1: Historical growth in infrastructure material demand as exemplified through per capita cement, steel and wood production.

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Acknowledgements

S. Kevan, K.E. Kurtis, C. Johnson, M.C.G. Juenger, J. Moehle, R. Myers, and R. Shahsavari are thanked for their help.

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  1. Paulo J. M. Monteiro and Arpad Horvath are in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA,

    Paulo J. M. Monteiro & Arpad Horvath

  2. Sabbie A. Miller is at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA,

    Sabbie A. Miller

  3. P.J.M.M. is also in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA,

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Monteiro, P., Miller, S. & Horvath, A. Towards sustainable concrete. Nature Mater 16, 698–699 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4930

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