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: Build with Strength coalition, Alexandria, Va.; SolidCarbon Inc., McMinnville, Ore.; CMCM staff The Tacoma/Pierce County Affordable Housing Consortium has recognized Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity and the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Build with Strength coalition for a Gig Harbor, Wash. home built with insulating concrete form (ICF) walls Read more…
Sources: Rogers Group Inc., Nashville; CMCM staff
(more…)Sources: CarbiCrete, Montreal; CP staff CarbiCrete, developer of a concrete masonry unit production process abating and removing 150 kilograms of carbon dioxide per metric ton of output, has taken a critical commercialization step through charter North American producer, Quebec-based Patio Drummond. After extensive testing of steel slag binder and CO2 gas Read more…
Sources: Master Builders Solutions, Beachwood, Ohio; CMCM staff Concrete admixture market leader Master Builders Solutions equips users of its latest Concrete Now! app version with the Embodied Carbon Estimator, joining other ready mixed order planning, tracking and management tools. Estimator enables data-driven decision making by analyzing key environmental metrics for Read more…
Sources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CMCM staff The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association is accepting through October 6 applications for producers to contribute data underpinning the Industry-Wide Environmental Product Declaration Version 4.0 (IW-EPD v4) and Benchmark Report. The new document will feature carbon dioxide emissions and other Read more…
Sources: Holcim US, Chicago; CMCM staff New solar panels at the Holcim US Fort Totten ready mixed plant will ease the Washington, D.C. industrial power load and advance the concrete, cement, and aggregate giant’s goal of running all materials sites with renewable energy by 2030. The installation includes cementitious material Read more…
Sources: American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CMCM staff American Concrete Institute Committee 302, Construction of Concrete Floors, and the American Society of Concrete Contractors are inviting practitioners to share their experiences placing and finishing mixes bearing ASTM C595, Type IL portland-limestone cement (PLC). Their 15-question survey, posted here, launches as Read more…
Sources: Carver Sand & Gravel LLC, New York; Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.; CMCM staff Carver Sand & Gravel will supply Great Lakes Dredge & Dock with scour protection rock for turbine foundations and substations across the Empire Wind I and II wind farms, pegged Read more…
Sources: Prometheus Materials, Boulder, Colo.; CP staff Prometheus Materials, developer of bio-cement and bio-concrete technology launching in molded, dry cast products, reports strong performance of 2-in. thick specimens subjected to ASTM C423-23, Standard Test Method for Sound Absorption and Sound Absorption Coefficients by the Reverberation Room Method. Testing at the Read more…