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Day: April 1, 2024

Truck heavyweights charter coalition to advance zero-emission vehicle era

Concrete News

Daimler Truck North America, Navistar Inc. and Volvo Group North America lead founding members of Powering America’s Commercial Transportation (PACT), a Washington, D.C. coalition focused on education and advocacy for accelerating the construction of nationwide infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). Company executives assembled in Washington, D.C. for a kickoff at the National Press Club, citing PACT’s “express…

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ASHRAE, ICC weigh feedback on building life cycle emissions draft

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ASHRAE and the International Code Council invite comment to their jointly developed document, Proposed ASHRAE/ICC Standard 240P – Quantification of Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Buildings, through this month. The draft of the standard can be obtained and comments portal accessed at osr.ashrae.org. Standard 240P will provide a methodology to quantify the embodied and operational GHG emissions associated with…

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NRMCA Concrete Innovations Awards

Craig Yeack

Now in its second year, the program recognizes outstanding achievement in concrete design and construction. Early this month, the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association selected the winners of the 2024 NRMCA Concrete Innovations Awards. Ten projects demonstrate outstanding achievements in performance even as they lower environmental impacts, such as embodied and operational carbon footprints. To help you fully understand the…

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The Overlooked Gift to Our Economy

Pierre Villere

by Pierre G. Villere Just a couple of months ago, I wrote about the outlook for a strong economy for the foreseeable future, and I cited the confluence of events that is apparent around us: Inflation that is falling, the outlook for interest rate cuts later this year, and the robust performance of the stock markets that is bolstering everyone’s 401(k)…

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Performance specs drive dematerialization strategy

Don Marsh

Building Transparency, the Seattle-based organization behind the environmental product declaration-fueled Embodied Carbon Calculator (EC3), raises a “less is more” premise for carbon emissions-minded architectural, engineering and construction professionals. Authors of its latest report, Manufacturers Guide to Embodied Carbon, frame “dematerialization” as a strategy where the lowest cost, lowest carbon footprint specification results from a design requiring less raw material per…

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Martin Marietta Materials CFO Nickolas chairs NSSGA

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Source: Rock Products Magazine Martin Marietta Materials Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jim Nickolas was elected 2024 National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association chair during the group’s annual convention, succeeding Seth Hankowski of Massachusetts-based All States Materials Group. “The stone, sand and gravel industry is the foundation for so many products we use every day. The nation’s infrastructure,…

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Home Depot gains masonry, stone representation and pro accounts in SRS deal

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Sources: SRS Distribution Inc., McKinney, Texas; CP staff Berkshire Partners LLC and Leonard Green & Partners L.P, lead SRS Distribution Inc. investors, have entered definitive agreement to sell their building products business to Atlanta-based The Home Depot in an $18.250 billion deal. SRS Distribution has 750 locations across 46 states and will operate as an independent unit within the home…

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Lifting yoke fine tunes precast panel or element, tilt-up wall load balancing 

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Source: CP staff   The Ganterud L20-3 Pro Capacity load balancing device, engineered to assist in rapid architectural or structural concrete element leveling in plant, yard or site picks, has arrived on this side of the Atlantic following delivery of 350-plus units to European producers, erectors and contractors. Dublin-based Hoistec Ltd., principal representative of Sweden’s Ganterud Lifting Solutions AB, is overseeing…

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EPA finalizes 2028 day cab, 2029 mixer, dump model emissions standards

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Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; CP staff The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims avoidance of 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and $13 billion in net annual benefits to society attributable to GHG Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3, a final rule released just ahead of the Easter holiday weekend. If they clear near-certain legal challenges, the…

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