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Surface treatments play an important role in the protection of construction materials from the ingress of water and other deleterious substances. Due to the negative side-effects of some of the conventional techniques, bacterial induced carbonate mineralization has been proposed as a novel and environmental friendly strategy for the protection of stone and mortar. This paper reports the effects of...