TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable concrete in Asia
T2 - Approaches and barriers considering regional context
AU - Henry, Michael
AU - Kato, Yoshitaka
N1 - Funding Information:
The investigations in South Korea and Singapore were funded by the Global Center of Excellence Program “Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration” at the University of Tokyo, Japan. The investigation in Mongolia was funded by The Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Science, Japan.
PY - 2014/9/30
Y1 - 2014/9/30
N2 - Asia is home to a diversity of socio-economic and environmental conditions which directly affect concrete-related manufacturing and construction. The implementation of sustainable concrete in Asian countries is thus highly dependent on their regional conditions, but the regional context of sustainable concrete needs to be understood in order to connect generalized strategies with actual implementation. This paper summarizes the results and key findings from previous qualitative investigations carried out in Japan, Thailand, S. Korea, Mongolia, and Singapore, and compares the approaches and barriers to sustainable concrete in order to extract regional issues and their relationship with sustainable concrete. The results highlight the importance of institutional systems, economic factors, resource availability and recycling, geography and climate, technology level, stakeholder roles and relations, and social factors when considering the implementation of strategies for sustainable concrete in Asia.
AB - Asia is home to a diversity of socio-economic and environmental conditions which directly affect concrete-related manufacturing and construction. The implementation of sustainable concrete in Asian countries is thus highly dependent on their regional conditions, but the regional context of sustainable concrete needs to be understood in order to connect generalized strategies with actual implementation. This paper summarizes the results and key findings from previous qualitative investigations carried out in Japan, Thailand, S. Korea, Mongolia, and Singapore, and compares the approaches and barriers to sustainable concrete in order to extract regional issues and their relationship with sustainable concrete. The results highlight the importance of institutional systems, economic factors, resource availability and recycling, geography and climate, technology level, stakeholder roles and relations, and social factors when considering the implementation of strategies for sustainable concrete in Asia.
KW - Asia
KW - Climate
KW - Concrete
KW - Institutional systems
KW - Resources
KW - Socio-economic conditions
KW - Stakeholders
KW - Sustainability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.12.074
DO - 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.12.074
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84906950720
SN - 0950-0618
VL - 67
SP - 399
EP - 404
JO - Construction and Building Materials
JF - Construction and Building Materials
IS - PART C
ER -