Sources: Heirloom Carbon Technologies, Brisbane, Calif.; CMCM staff Heirloom Carbon Technologies, northern California developer and operator of the premier Direct Air Capture (DAC) assembly in the U.S., teamed with CarbonCure Technologies and Central Concrete Supply Co. for a first in ready mixed concrete production: Permanent storage of DAC-derived atmospheric carbon Read more…
Sources: Office of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy; CMCM staff A New Jersey law effective in 2024 will provide corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for costs of preparing Environmental Product Declarations that assess concrete mixes’ global warming potential, expressed on EPDs as kg of carbon dioxide equivalent Read more…
Denver, Colo. — Market forces rooted in the Buy Clean, Carbon Neutrality, LEED v4 and Net Zero movements have spawned an important new web portal, Construction Materials Carbon Management, www.cmcarbonmanagement.com. The just-launched site follows cement, concrete and steel producer progress in lowering the carbon dioxide emissions factor, or embodied carbon, Read more…
Sources: Federal Highway Administration; CMCM staff The Federal Highway Administration has opened registration for its next Every Day Counts Virtual Summit, with three or four daily sessions or roundtables focusing on Environmental Product Declarations and their role in transportation procurement policy (all times EST): Tuesday, February 14 • Buy Clean Policy 101, Read more…
Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; CMCM staff The Environmental Protection Agency will host three webinars to gather public and private construction stakeholder perspectives on procurement policy tied to carbon dioxide emissions accounting and reporting methods for specified materials or products: • Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Construction Materials Prioritization and Environmental Read more…
Sources: Sublime Systems, Somerville, Mass.; CMCM staff Sublime Systems has closed a Series A funding round to support commercialization of technology that replaces the most energy- and fossil fuel-intensive aspects of portland cement production. The company derives a portland cement alternative from a variety of graded, abundantly available calcium and Read more…
Sources: Converge, London; CMCM staff Officials of Converge, U.K. developer of artificial intelligence (AI) technology for concrete practitioners, and Stanley Black & Decker Inc. tool brand DeWalt are teaming to assist producers, engineers and contractors in portland cement-optimized mix design plus accelerated pour schedules. A partnership they announced at World Read more…
Sources: Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C.; CP staff Portland Cement Association members are marking the first year of their Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality by 2050 by highlighting key deliverables for public and private construction market stakeholders. Released in mid-October 2021, the Roadmap outlines strategies in a value chain—Clinker, Cement, Concrete, Read more…
Sources: Heidelberg Materials, Irving, Texas; CP staff The Lehigh Cement plant in Union Bridge, Md. will see primary output shift from ordinary portland cement to the branded EcoCem Portland-Limestone Cement—clinker + up to 10 percent finely graded limestone—by no later than January 2023. Union Bridge is presently the producer’s largest Read more…
Sources: Titan America LLC, Norfolk, Va.; CP staff Titan America has become the first U.S. producer to fully switch its ASTM C150 Type I/II portland cement to ASTM C595 Type IL or portland-limestone cement. This lower carbon powder utilizes conventional clinker and gypsum, typically blended with up to 15 percent Read more…