Free Publications

This page lists available documents produced by ACAA, federal agencies and other coal combustion products industry stakeholders. Copies are available in limited quantities at no cost either in hardcopy or by downloading from this site. Although there is no charge for the publications, ACAA applies mailing costs to your requests. To order items for mailing, please contact us by phone at (720) 870-7897 or by email at info@acaa-usa.org.  If you are an ACAA member and have similar material that would benefit the industry, contact ACAA.

Sustainable Construction with Coal Combustion Products:
A Primer for Architects

This full color, 12 page pamphlet, intended as an introduction to architects, covers a range of topical summaries emphasizing the beneficial use of coal combustion products (CCPs) in building design applications. Specifically covered subjects are CCP material descriptions, U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Certification program, production and use statistics, actual CCP building use case studies,  the applicability of CCPs to building design and application products, the use of CCPs and their influence on sustainability and a list of other CCP references.

ACAA Educational Foundation, November, 2008 
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Coal Combustion Products: Safe and Valuable Resources

A one page ACAA fact sheet, addresses positive attributes of CCPs including societal and environmental benefits. (Fact Sheet 1)

Coal Combustion Products: Not a Hazardous Waste

A two page ACAA fact sheet emphasizing the decades of government and univerity studies that have determined CCPs as non-hazardous. (Fact Sheet 2)

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Coal Combustion Products: Environmentally and Socially Beneficial

A two page ACAA fact sheet discussing Federal government support for CCPs as a way to reduce the impact of industrial practices on the environment. (Fact Sheet 3)

Available for download in PDF format. 

Coal Combustion Products: Creating Economic Sustainability

A one page ACAA fact sheet addressing both the use of CCPs by U.S. construction managers and the leadership role being taken by the Federal government regarding recycling and supporting sustainable construction practices. (Fact Sheet 4)

Available for download in PDF format.

Coal Combustion Products: Recommendations to Increase Utilization

A two page ACAA fact sheet listing ACAA's recommendations to the US EPA on how best to increase the benefical use of coal combustion products. (Fact Sheet 5)

Available for download.

Coal Combustion Products: Beneficial Use-Simply Recycling by Another Name

A two page ACAA fact sheet addressing the similarities of day-to-day recycling and the beneficial use of coal combustion byproducts. Provided is a chart giving energy savings and life cycle impacts of one ton of fly ash used in concrete. (Fact Sheet 6)

Available for download.

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