Environmental Protection Issues constitute a vast and intricate planetary jigsaw puzzle whose pieces extend far beyond the familiar keywords of global warming, air pollution, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, waste management, resource depletion, and ecological conversation. To truly comprehend this puzzle, it must be positioned within a three-dimensional coordinate system defined by "Humanity-Earth-Future."
Can the selection of materials in construction engineering also contribute to global environmental protection?
How to choose environmentally friendly building materials?
In construction engineering, selecting environmentally friendly building materials is a key step in helping protect the global environment. Environmentally friendly materials usually have the characteristics of low energy consumption, low pollution, and recyclability. For instance, the use of recycled aggregate concrete, which is made by crushing and screening waste concrete to be reused as aggregate in concrete production. This not only reduces the exploitation of natural aggregates but also solves the problem of handling large amounts of construction waste. There is also bamboo, which grows rapidly and is a sustainable building material. Bamboo has high strength and good toughness, and can be used in building structural frames of houses, interior decoration, etc. The energy consumption in its processing is also relatively low.