“…The literature review also revealed that, among the reported studies on the use of BA to develop geopolymers, most have focused on the behaviour of geopolymer pastes (e.g. Antunes et al, 2013;Boonserm et al, 2012;Chen et al, 2012;Geetha and Ramamurthy, 2013;Slavik et al, 2008;Topçu and Toprak, 2011;Topçu et al, 2014;Xu et al, 2010) and mortars (e.g. Chindaprasirt and Rattanasak, 2010;Chindaprasirt et al, , 2011Chotetanorm et al, 2012;Kim et al, 2012;Kunjalukkal and Licciulli, 2014;Li et al, 2012;Sata et al, 2012;Sathonsaowaphak et al, 2009;Sinha et al, 2014), with only one reported study on the behaviour of BA-based GPCs (e.g.…”