Sources: BranchPattern, Kansas City; CP staff The BranchPattern 2024 Embodied Carbon Benchmark Study – Version 2 reveals how the average embodied carbon intensity of U.S. industrial core and shell buildings, excluding site work, decreased over the past year from 23 to 22 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per square foot (kgCO2e/ft2). Researchers for the national sustainability and engineering firm drew…
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Cemex USA chief Muguiro to succeed parent company CEO González
Sources: Cemex S.A.B. de C.V., Monterrey, Mexico; CP staff Cemex Directors have appointed Jaime Muguiro to replace retiring CEO Fernando González, a 35-year veteran of the global cement, aggregate and concrete operator, effective April 2025. “In over a decade as CEO, Fernando has led Cemex to great success, and he will leave us with a company that is an industry…
Read MoreLawson-led Jonel team to operate independently under SRM Concrete
Sources: SRM Concrete, Smyrna, Tenn.; CP staff After a decade of unprecedented expansion in ready mixed and aggregate production, cement distribution and mixer truck manufacturing, SRM Concrete has entered the plant control and fleet dispatch software arena with the acquisition of Jonel Engineering. With hardware and information technology solutions suiting ready mixed, precast and concrete masonry producers, the Fullerton, Calif.…
Read MoreNRMCA teams with EPA to grow the Energy Star imprint
Sources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff An exclusive focus on ready mixed concrete under the Environmental Protection Agency-administered Energy Star program will provide producers resources to enhance energy efficiency, cut costs and strengthen sustainability metrics. The effort stands to emulate a well established cement industry template, where producers and program officials set annual power and fuel…
Read MoreCharter executives take controlling stake in PB Materials
Sources: BPGC Management LP, New York; CP staff A BPGC Management (BPG) fund has acquired a substantial majority stake in Odessa, Texas-based PB Materials Holdings Inc. from certain funds managed by WL Ross & Co. LLC. PBM serves west Texas and southeast New Mexico accounts through 12 ready mixed plants with a 120-mixer truck fleet delivering more than 750,000 cubic…
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