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Seems like the sort of thing governments should be incentivising.
There's a little bit of that happening, in the form of the US government having recently adopted a low-carbon construction materials requirement, so that architects and contractors will get experience using the new concrete versions on government projects.
hurrah, now let's just hope they do like 100 times more of that, and maybe enact some actual meaningful climate policy and we'll be fine.