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Sustainable Development Strategy is a policy established for the purpose of environmental protection. The strategy includes several policies which can be applied to designing, construction or building materials. The idea of performance concept states that one should optimize the amount of waste products in building materials. Such materials should meet all the requirements and standards, simultaneously being innovative and cost efficient. Waste products, acquire from various industrial process, must be properly di...

Silica fume is a waste product created in the production process of metallic silicon, ferrosilicon and other silicon alloys in the electric arc furnace with or without heat recuperation of flue gasses. Microsilica as a waste hazardous to the environment after years of studies in laboratories and science institutes found its use in civil engineering. The utilization of silica fumes in civil engineering is mostly visible in the technology of high performance concretes (HPC). The examination of imposed thermal stress...