Research in the Building Technology Program at MIT Manshi Low's Research: Understanding a Building Material: Material Flow Analysis of Concrete in the United States Currently, little is known about the management of massive building materials flows. This has serious implications in how the growing volume of construction and demolition (C&D) building waste would be dealt with. A Material Flow Analysis (MFA) of concrete is proposed to increase the transparency of the movements of a widely-used building material. The MFA would provide the mass quantities of raw materials and concrete from the extraction phase (cradle) to the post-use phase (cradle) moving through the U.S. economy for a given year. Ideally, the volume of the concrete as building stock and its average residence time in the anthroposphere could be quantified. |
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