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Archives: February 2011
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Concrete Becomes Greener
Monday, 7 February 2011Aiming to be the first 5-star green design educational building in New Zealand, the new $30 million student services building at Waikato University has seen the ‘greenness’ of the construction process aided by expertise from Fletcher Construction, the main contractor for the project, and Firth who is supplying the concrete. The site features a new ‘green’ concrete mix, GreenCrete®, incorporating recycled aggregate and fly ash from Huntly Power Station, replacing 20% of the cement content.