Report rep037 : Environment-Conscious Construction Materials and Systems - State-of-the-Art Report of RILEM Technical Committee 192-ECM

At present, the environmental problem becomes a common theme in the whole world. It is not possible to continue the mass consumption and the mass disposal of resources.

It has been required that resource conservation and maintenance of global environment which made energy-saving to be a key; the reduction of the discharge of waste and the promo-tion of the recycling are attempted.

RILEM TC 192-ECM 'Environment Conscious Materials and Systems for Sustainable De-velopment' was established in 2001, to consider this aspect. Seven meetings were held to discuss on 'Advent of the Aging Society', 'Maturing of the Economy', 'Preservation of the Global Environment', 'Limits on Solid Waste Quantities' and 'Production of sustainable Building (Encouragement of Long-Lasting Building as social assets)'.

At the time of initiation of the Technical Committee, some basic considerations were made on environmental problems in the field of construction materials. During the lifetime of the TC, the ideal character of the environment conscious materials and construction systems has been discussed.

In this report, toward the goals of preserving the global environment, natural resources, re-ducing solid waste and promoting recycling, indoor quality, reduced energy consumption, energy-efficient buildings, life-cycle analysis, environmental assessment, pollution control, etc. are discussed.

Contents

Chapter 1- Introduction

Chapter 2 - Resources

Chapter 3 - Indoor quality

Chapter 4 - Energy-efficient buildings

Chapter 5 - Life-cycle analysis

Chapter 6 - Pollution control

Chapter 7 - Concluding remarks