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…
Sources: Valmont Industries Inc., Omaha, Neb.; CP staff The top concrete power transmission and distribution pole producer has marked an inflection point in (GHG Protocol-defined) Scope 2 and 3 emissions and (Environmental Product Declaration-cited) global warming potential metrics at its Bristol, Ind. plant. Valmont Industries’ new $35 million operation is Read more…
Sources: CarbonCure Technologies, Halifax, Nova Scotia; CP staf CarbonCure Technologies, developer of a widely deployed process for mineralizing and permanently sequestering carbon dioxide in concrete, has announced a major investment by Blue Earth Capital of Switzerland, part of a broader collaborative funding round exceeding $80 million. Funding round participants include Read more…
Sources: Holcim US, Chicago; CP staff An ECOPact concrete mix specification for the recently topped out Populus hotel in Denver nets a 764-ton reduction in carbon dioxide emissions when measured against CO2 metrics attending conventional ready mixed concrete. Denver producer Holcim US designs ECOPact concretes with supplementary binding agents to offset Read more…
Sources: Global Cement and Concrete Association, London; CMCM staff The Global Cement and Concrete Association has shortlisted nine North American startups for the 2023 Innovandi Open Challenge, soliciting technologies that lower the carbon factor in finished concrete: • Arrakis Materials, Woburn, Mass.; carbon-negative materials for concrete mixes • Chement, Chicago; electrochemical process Read more…