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By using lightweight aggregate concrete, the weight of the structure can be reduced and less concrete is used, resulting in smaller foundations. The building’s thermal properties and behaviour can be improved.

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Acknowledgement: The Concrete Society


Other references:Concrete Society, ´Lightweight aggregate concrete designers fact sheets´, CONCRETE, May/June 1991, pp 41-44.

 

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