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Part of the objective of this project was to find a building material, specifically a fiber-concrete mixture, that the community will be able to utilize in the future to make more blocks for other projects. As such, final product should be composed of locally purchased or acquired materials, and have a low cost, both monetary and environmental. | Part of the objective of this project was to find a building material, specifically a fiber-concrete mixture, that the community will be able to utilize in the future to make more blocks for other projects. As such, final product should be composed of locally purchased or acquired materials, and have a low cost, both monetary and environmental. | ||
Entirely concrete cinderblocks have a high embedded energy, with an average of 0.67 MJ/kg and 0.073 kg Co<sub>2</sub> per kg with a density of 1450 kg/m<sup>3</sup>[http://www. | Entirely concrete cinderblocks have a high embedded energy, with an average of 0.67 MJ/kg and 0.073 kg Co<sub>2</sub> per kg with a density of 1450 kg/m<sup>3</sup>[http://www.greenspec.co.uk/embodied-energy.php]. The new blocks should have less embedded energy per block. | ||
== Criteria == | == Criteria == |