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Test Your Knowledge: Embodied Carbon and the Concrete Conundrum

April 16, 2025

Each week, Construction Canada offers a quiz based on a feature article. This week’s quiz is from Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction. As builders aim to lower concrete’s environmental footprint, well-meaning solutions—like replacing cement with SCMs—can sometimes do more harm than good. Take the quiz to test your knowledge of how curing practices and mix design impact the success of low-carbon concrete!

 

Quiz - April 23
1. Why has the replacement of cement with materials like slag and PLC created issues in modern concrete?
2. What is one of the key advantages of internal curing with nano silica compared to traditional surface curing?
3. What is the main similarity between the British cobra bounty in colonial India and recent efforts to reduce embodied carbon in concrete?

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