IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v12y2020i2p696-d310157.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Bacterial Concrete as a Sustainable Building Material?

Author

Listed:
  • Elżbieta Stanaszek-Tomal

    (Chair of Building Materials Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, PK Cracow University of Technology, 31-155 Kraków, Poland)

Abstract

The right selection of building materials plays an important role when designing a building to fall within the definition of sustainable development. One of the most commonly used construction materials is concrete. Its production causes a high energy burden on the environment. Concrete is susceptible to external factors. As a result, cracks occur in the material. Achieving its durability along with the assumptions of sustainable construction means there is a need to use an environmentally friendly and effective technique of alternative crack removal in the damaged material. Bacterial self-healing concrete reduces costs in terms of detection of damage and maintenance of concrete structures, thus ensuring a safe lifetime of the structure. Bacterial concrete can improve its durability. However, it is not currently used on an industrial scale. The high cost of the substrates used means that they are not used on an industrial scale. Many research units try to reduce production costs through various methods; however, bacterial concrete can be an effective response to sustainability.

Suggested Citation

  • Elżbieta Stanaszek-Tomal, 2020. "Bacterial Concrete as a Sustainable Building Material?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-13, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:2:p:696-:d:310157
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/2/696/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/2/696/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. John Milan van der Bergh & Bojan Miljević & Snežana Vučetić & Olja Šovljanski & Siniša Markov & Mike Riley & Jonjaua Ranogajec & Ana Bras, 2021. "Comparison of Microbially Induced Healing Solutions for Crack Repairs of Cement-Based Infrastructure," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-17, April.
    2. Valery Lesovik & Roman Fediuk & Mugahed Amran & Nikolai Vatin & Roman Timokhin, 2021. "Self-Healing Construction Materials: The Geomimetic Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-11, August.
    3. Mustafa S. Al-Tekreeti & Salwa M. Beheiry & Vian Ahmed, 2021. "A Framework for Assessing Commitment Indicators in Sustainable Development Decisions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-21, May.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:2:p:696-:d:310157. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.