Sustainability in Civil Engineering: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmentally Friendly Materials in Modern Construction Projects

Abstract

The increased growth of pollution sources that accompanying developments in various areas of life, especially in the field of civil engineering, because it represents the infrastructure industry of any country, the focus on caring for the environment has become more than ever before, since the construction of buildings, facilities, roads, bridges, and others have a bad environmental impact, whether through the work or materials used in it, the civil engineer must therefore strive to find alternative solutions, and one of those solutions is to encourage sustainability in civil engineering in general.

The most important thing is to use environmentally friendly building materials in particular. This is done by finding alternative building materials than traditional materials to reduce environmental pollution and work to preserve natural resources and improve the quality of living, while at the same time providing the basic elements, which are durability, availability and economic cost.

In this research, we will discuss making a comparison between sustainable building materials and regular (non-sustainable) building materials, by taking advantage of laboratory experiments on sustainable building materials and previous experiences to verify the efficiency of available sustainable materials and setting appropriate standards for their use in the correct ways.