Embodied carbon of structural earthen composites with natural materials and byproducts suitable for robotic 3d printing

Open Access

Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 546, 2024 2024 2^nd International Conference on Green Building (ICoGB 2024)


Article Number		03008
Number of page(s)		11
Section		Building Materials and Retrofit
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202454603008
Published online		09 July 2024

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