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Understanding Concrete and Its Environmental Impact

This quiz tests knowledge on concrete's properties, environmental impacts, and historical records, aimed at enhancing understanding of this vital material in construction and its role in urban environments.

#Concrete #Construction #Environmental Impact #Urban Heat Island #Sustainability

1 [34] A low ________ value, characteristic of black asphalt, absorbs a large percentage of solar heat and contributes to the warming of cities.

2 ________, a composite material of ice and cellulose

3 It is then added to a plasticizer admixture and mixed after that with aggregates in conventional ________.

4 Both concrete and ________ are the primary contributors to what is known as the urban heat island effect.

5 With the use of form liner, concrete can be cast and molded into different textures and used for ________ applications.

6 The ________ industry is one of two primary producers of carbon dioxide (CO2), creating up to 5 percent of worldwide emissions of this gas.

7 The world record for the largest concrete pour in a single project is the Three Gorges Dam in ________ Province, China by the Three Gorges Corporation.

8 Separate paste mixing has shown that the mixing of ________ and water into a paste before combining these materials with aggregates can increase the compressive strength of the resulting concrete.

9 Concrete has relatively high compressive strength, but significantly lower ________, and as such is usually reinforced with materials that are strong in tension (often steel).

10 The world record for largest continuously poured concrete floor was completed November 8, 1997 in ________ by design-build firm, EXXCEL Project Management.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the bobsleigh and luge track used for the 1992 Winter Olympics has 80 km (50 mi) of ammonia refrigeration piping and 40 km (25 mi) of electrical conduit running though its Template:Convert/cum of concrete.
  • the J.W. Knapp Company Building, one of the finest intact examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the Midwest, is faced with plates of enamel-covered concrete and prismatic glass-brick windows.
  • the Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge (pictured) is the first segmentally constructed concrete arch bridge in the United States.
  • the world's tallest concrete-faced rockfill dam is Shuibuya Dam on the Qingjiang River in China.
  • when completed in 1988, the 52-storey BankWest Tower in Perth, Western Australia (pictured) was the eighth tallest concrete skyscraper in the world.
  • using an orthotropic deck instead of a concrete deck reduced the mass of the Golden Gate Bridge by 11,160 metric tons.
  • the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge (pictured), a concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in Russian Gulch State Park near Mendocino, California, replaced an earlier wooden trestle bridge in 1940.
  • the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire.
  • Court Avenue, Ohio, was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete.
  • taxi driver David Wilkie was killed during the UK miners' strike in 1984, when two striking coal miners dropped a 46 lb concrete block on his taxicab, which was carrying a working miner.
  • lignosulfonates, wood pulp byproducts, are used to make concrete, tanned leather, and even artificial vanillin.
  • rainwater tanks may be made from polyethylene, concrete, or galvanised steel, but not from clear plastic, because it would allow in sunlight, leading to algal blooms.
  • in one of the first tests of Hajile, an experimental British World War II retrorocket system, a gigantic block of concrete was dropped through the roof of the workshop from 2000 ft.
  • a call of the Edwards's Fig-parrot (pictured) of Northeastern New Guinea has been likened to "coins dropping on concrete".
  • Chicago's Fountain of Time by Lorado Taft is considered the earliest outdoor concrete sculpture.
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