Sources: NEU: An ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CMCM staff U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Federal Highway Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology representatives offered and compiled takeaways as participants in the first Summit on Accelerating Carbon Neutral Concrete Materials Read more…
Sources: Coolbrook Oy, Helsinki; CMCM staff Coolbrook reports success in the first phase of large-scale pilot RotoDynamic Heater (RDH) pilot tests, attaining a level of 1,000°C on a pathway toward a 1,700°C threshold equal to decarbonizing high-temperature iron, steel and cement processes by replacing fossil fuel combustion with electricity. With Read more…
Sources: Sims Crane & Equipment Co., Tampa; CMCM staff Florida’s largest private crane rental and rigging service provider, Sims Crane & Equipment Co., showcased the world’s first battery powered crawler crane at Tampa headquarters. The Liebherr 1250.1’s battery powered engine cuts local carbon dioxide emissions and can run for eight Read more…
Sources: U.S. Department of Energy; CMCM staff U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary David Turk led off a Climate Week New York City session noting how proven processing approaches or methods will enable cement producers to book a 30 percent greenhouse gas emissions reduction by the early 2030s and perhaps 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: Sublime Systems, Somerville, Mass.; CMCM staff Third-party testing confirms that Sublime Systems’ namesake concrete binder, produced with sharply lower carbon dioxide emissions metrics than portland cement, exhibits strength development, durability, low shrinkage and other engineering properties matching or exceeding ASTM C1157, Standard Performance Specification for Hydraulic Cement benchmarks. In 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: Heidelberg Materials North America, Irving, Texas Architectural, engineering and environmental services giant WSP will serve as owner’s engineers for a 1 million metric ton/year carbon dioxide emissions capture and storage facility at Heidelberg Materials’ Edmonton, Alberta cement plant—the first full-scale deployment of its kind among North American cement producers. Read more…