Sources: Solidia Technologies, San Antonio, Texas; CP staff CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp., California-based producer of Rapid Set and Komponent specialty concrete binders, recently completed the first of a series of planned Solidia Cement production campaigns. A low limestone binder that gains strength through exposure to carbon dioxide and the attendant Read more…
Source: Global Steel Climate Council, Washington, D.C. The Global Steel Climate Council has appointed Adina Renee Adler, a seasoned voice of competitive, low carbon manufacturing, as executive director. She will collaborate with producers, policymakers, and stakeholders to position the GSCC as a trailblazer for true carbon cutting through a standard Read more…
Sources: TIME USA LLC, New York; CP staff TIME reporters and editors include in their inaugural TIME100 Climate list two officials of startup companies developing low carbon, specification-grade binders for full replacement of portland cement in concrete: Brimstone Vice President of Materials Science & Geology Marcelo De Oliveira, Ph.D.; and, Read more…
Sources: Trinity Consultants, Dallas; CMCM staff A survey of 100 executives representing North American manufacturers or producers with annual revenues exceeding $250 million reveals major challenges for the construction materials sector to align (GHG Protocol-defined) Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions reduction strategies and widely subscribed decarbonization targets. Environmental services provider Read more…
Sources: General Services Administration; CMCM staff The General Services Administration has released a list of more than 150 federal building construction or upgrade projects across 39 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico where low embodied carbon (LEC) material specifications will be supported by $2 billion in Inflation Reduction Act Read more…
Sources: Sublime Systems, Somerville, Mass.; CMCM staff A screening life cycle assessment (LCA) validates how Sublime Systems’ low temperature, electrolysis-enabled processing of calcium-bearing feeds yields a concrete-grade binder whose global warming potential (GWP) is less than one-tenth that of a typical portland cement. The most widely referenced metric in environmental Read more…
Sources: AWS, Seattle; CMCM staff In his inaugural About Amazon blog post, Amazon Web Services Director of Sustainability Chris Walker cites savings of 22,000-plus tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) year to date across 27 data center construction material schedules, owing to specification of lower carbon concrete and steel where Read more…
Sources: Solidia Technologies, San Antonio, Texas; CMCM staff San Francisco global climate solutions specialist 3Degrees Group Inc. has entered an agreement covering measurement, verification, and marketing of greenhouse gas emissions avoidance or reduction attributable to Solidia Technologies’ namesake cementitious materials and concrete. Credits from specifying the company’s portland cement substitute Read more…
Sources: Summit Materials Inc., Denver; PCC Hydrogen Inc., Louisville, Ky.; CMCM staff Summit Materials’ Continental Cement Co. subsidiary and PCC Hydrogen (PCCH2) are eyeing a fuel replacement strategy lowering carbon emissions from cement production. A strategic alliance calls for Continental Cement to provide expertise related to the use of fossil Read more…
Sources: Lafarge Canada Inc. and ATCOenergy/Canadian Utilities Ltd. Calgary; CMCM staff A 12.5-year virtual power purchase agreement will cover one-third of the annual electricity requirements of the Lafarge Canada Exshaw cement plant, a key supplier to Alberta and British Columbia construction markets, and entail the entire output of the ATCOenergy Read more…