While on the road, you’re probably thinking more about your destination than the pavement you’re driving over. But building roads requires a host of engineering feats, from developing the right pavement materials to using heavy equipment to lay them down. The better they’re built, the longer roads last and the fewer construction delays drivers have to endure.
Production of a more sustainable and cost-effective low-carbon cement, often nicknamed “green” cement, is scaling up. A new plant next to an existing cement plant in Redding, California, will produce about 15,000 tonnes of low-carbon cement every year. This could be used to make about 50,000 cubic metres of concrete, which is less than 0.0004% of the world’s concrete production.
This simole web-based tool empowering design and build teams to specify low-carbon concrete for various parts of a building project to achieve GO2 reduction targets.
New technologies are needed to create a more resilient and less carbon-intensive building and infrastructure for the future.
Showcasing Holcim’s innovative and sustainable building solutions to scale up low-carbon, circular and energy-efficient building.
It is estimated that carbonation could offset up to 43% of calcination emissions during cement production.
Concrete efficiency could deliver nearly a quarter of the reductions required to meet the industry’s 2050 zero-emissions goal
The Whole Life Cycle Carbon Uptake Tool can help developers and planners to reduce the carbon impact of new construction