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Recycling is an important habit to avoid waste. This paper evaluates the performance of masonry mortar, elaborated by replacing natural sand with recycled fine aggregate (RFA) obtained from mortar. Five families of mixtures were prepared with different replacement proportions: [...]

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The  Journal of  Sustainable   Construction   Materials and  Project   Management (JSCMPM) covers topics not limited to: Recycled aggregates and dust for massive and systematic construction needs and requirements; Managing construction [...]

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One of the design team’s tasks is assuring that their project has a low negative impact on the environment. This comes from regulations as well as expectations of direct benefits (reduction of operating cost, the project’s improved image in the eyes of the public, etc.). To fulfill [...]

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In the last three decades the soft computing methods were used by the research community in almost every branch of construction, providing successful and convenient solutions for different problems in civil engineering. This paper presents some of the applications of these methods [...]

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One of the design team‘s tasks is assuring that their project has a low negative impact on the environment. This comes from regulations as well as expectations of direct benefits (reduction of operating cost, the project‘s improved image in the eyes of the public, etc.). To fulfill [...]

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In the article is considered one of the categories of social aspect of sustainable construction as specified in the standard EN 16309:2014 - namely: safety and security. The authors analyzed the component of the above-mentioned category with a subcategory called: resistance of buildings [...]