The Path to Green Concrete

Jorge de Brito is a Full Professor of Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and a senior researcher at CERIS: Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability. He obtained his Civil Engineering degree in 1982, a Master’s in Structural Engineering in 1987, and a PhD in Civil Engineering in 1993, all from IST. His research focuses on sustainable construction and eco-efficient materials, particularly the use of recycled aggregates in concrete and mortars, as well as life-cycle assessment, service life prediction, and infrastructure management systems. He has also contributed extensively to construction technology and building pathology research. De Brito is a highly prolific author with hundreds of publications and significant international recognition, and he has supervised numerous postgraduate theses while contributing to major research initiatives in sustainable Civil Engineering. Francisco Agrela is a Full Professor of Civil and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Cordoba, Spain, where he also obtained his PhD in 2003. He is a prolific author of research papers, book chapters, and conferences proceedings. In the last ten years, he has participated as Principal Investigator in more than 40 R+D+i projects related to real-scale applications of waste management and recycled materials. He collaborates with several Elsevier journals as a reviewer, notably Construction and Building Materials, Waste Management, Materials and Design, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, etc., and he is also on the Editorial Board of Materials (MDPI).Rui Vasco Silva is an Assistant Researcher at CERIS: Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and an Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources. He obtained his MSc in Civil Engineering in 2012 and completed his PhD in 2015 at IST, where his doctoral work focused on the use of recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste in structural concrete. His research centres on sustainable construction materials, including recycled aggregates, alkali-activated binders, supplementary cementitious materials, and innovative low-carbon technologies such as CO₂ curing. Silva has authored extensively in leading journals and actively contributes to international research projects in sustainable civil engineering.

• Section 1 - Developments on green supplementary cementitious materials1. Reactive magnesiaMiguel Bravo and Bruna A. Silva2. Stainless Steel SlagFrancisco Agrela Sainz and Julia Rosales3. Alkali activation of slagFrancisca Puertas4. New and More Sustainable Paths for the Development of Alkali Activated CementsNuno Cristelo, Jhonathan Rivera and Inés Garcia-Lodeiro5. Alkali-activated aluminosilicate industrial wastes as alternative binders in precast paving blocksRui Vasco Silva6. Granulation of incinerated municipal solid waste bottom ash with one-part alkali activation technologyPriyadharshini Perumal, Suman kumar Adhikary and Mirja IllikainenSection 2 - Construction, demolition and industrial wastes as aggregates in cementitious composites7. 3D printing concrete with by-productsBelén Gonzalez-Fonteboa8. Steel slag aggregate in concreteFlora Faleschini, Mariano Angelo Zanini and Daniel Trento9. Microtomography of eco-efficient concreteCarlos Thomas10. Mining waste as aggregate for concreteLina M. Trujillo López, Jesús Suárez-González, Carlos López-Colina, Ismael García, Miguel Serrano and Fernando Lopez GayarreSection 3 - Advances on eco-efficient concrete11. Ultra-high-performance concreteCaijun Shi and Xuanhan Zhang12. Self-healing concreteGurkan Yildirim and Behlul Furkan Ozel13. Cellular concreteMaria Victoria Borrachero Sr.14. Graphene in eco-efficient concreteManuel Cruz15. Nanoindentation of concrete with sustainable supplementary cementitious materialsWengui Li, Zhiyu Luo, Yipu Guo, Xuqun Lin, Xiaonan Wang, Hanbing Zhao and Xuanrui Zhang16. Pervious concrete with alternative materialsKrishna Prapoorna Biligiri and Avishreshth Singh