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'Innovative solutions please, as long as they have been proved elsewhere: the case of a polished lime-pozzolan concrete floor'

Submitted by Laure Ballu on

Highlights of this open access article published in Case Studies in Construction Materials:

• Innovative new teaching building, incorporating site-won material, sought by school.

• Bespoke lime-pozzolan concrete floor screed developed utilising site-won aggregate.

• Sample panel of the novel lime-pozzolan concrete polished by specialist sub-contractor.

• 25% lower embodied-CO2 and 37% lower embodied energy than vinyl floor finish.

• Novel floor specified at end of Stage D but omitted by the client at appointment of main contractor.

Article freely accessible: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214509514000059