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Communities in South Florida may be underestimating hurricane damages by overlooking the layout of communities, according to research from the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
Research Brief: Incorporating Neighborhood Texture Into Hurricane Loss Estimation
Wed, 03/10/2021
While the need for hurricane resilience has become increasingly urgent, current tools still...
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MIT Researchers are studying how to model floods in urban environments
Research Brief: Precipitation Flooding in Urban Environments
Mon, 03/01/2021
Though cities have become increasingly vulnerable to floods, flooding maps remain time- and...
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2020 CSHub Annual Report
Fri, 02/26/2021
2020 was both a challenging and productive year for the MIT CSHub. As we grappled with emerging...
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MIT Research Scientist explains how to lower the environmental footprint of concrete
Fortune Magazine: The Last Mile of Carbonization
Tue, 02/16/2021
Buildings produce around 40% of the world’s GHG emissions. What will it take to reach carbon...
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Concrete Pavements in the United States Could Absorb 5% of Cement Emissions and help fight Climate Change
Research Brief: Life Cycle Carbon Uptake of the United States Pavement Network
Wed, 01/27/2021
During a natural chemical process known as carbonation, concrete binders exposed to the air can...
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Concrete Pavements in the United States Could Absorb 5% of Cement Emissions and help fight Climate Change
MIT News: Unraveling Carbon Uptake in Concrete Pavements
Wed, 01/27/2021
Though concrete's surface may seem inert, it's actually the site of a continuous chemical process....
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Research Brief: Comparison of Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks for Predicting Pavement Roughness
Tue, 01/26/2021
While it has long been clear that the weight of traffic deteriorates pavements, the exact forms of...
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Topic Summary: Adding Environmental Impacts into the Procurement of Building Products
Wed, 01/13/2021
Over the last two decades, governments have implemented procurement policies to ensure that the...
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This report provides a unified theoretical framework for understating two causes of premature deterioration in concrete pavements: the alkali-silica reaction and freeze-thaw damage.
A Scientific Investigation into Concrete Pavement Durability
Tue, 01/12/2021
A culmination of several years of multidisciplinary collaboration, this report by researchers from...
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The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub and MIT Climate initiative explain the relationsip between concrete and climate change
MIT Climate Explainer: Concrete
Mon, 01/11/2021
What exactly is concrete and what is its relationship to climate change? This brief explainer...
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