Top architect’s specs hospitable to low-carbon Holcim US mixes

Holcim US proves the potential of its ECOPact concrete to align with the low-carbon metrics project principals envision for the recently topped out Populus, a 13-story hotel that high profile architect Studio Gang has tailored for a triangular Denver site. The producer teamed with the architect, Denver developer Urban Villages, and general contractor Beck Group on a superstructure concrete schedule…

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Holcim ECOPact finishes atop Next Level Awards/Contractors’ category

Sources: Holcim US, Chicago; CP staff Holcim ECOPact Low-Carbon Concrete earned Contractors’ Choice category recognition in the inaugural ConExpo-Con/Agg Next Level Awards. The program celebrates exhibiting companies that are pushing the boundaries and developing material, equipment and related technologies or services poised to advance the construction industry. ECOPact mixes provide the global construction industry a versatile solution to the carbon…

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Holcim ECOPact series mixes conform to Amazon Web Services data center specs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has approved ECOPact brand mixes for northern Virginia data centers—facilities whose electrical and mechanical infrastructure typically spells inordinate concrete mass. Holcim US ready mixed operations design ECOPact orders with cementitious material blends, optimizing portland cement dosages and lowering concrete slabs and structures’ embodied carbon levels. A new AWS standard for U.S. data centers calls for mix…

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Holcim, Baker, Amazon craft carbon-wise, data center concrete schedules

Sources: Holcim US, Chicago; CP staff Amazon Web Services has approved Holcim ECOPact concrete mixes for a series of northern Virginia data centers in which Baker Concrete Construction or HITT Contracting will perform slab and structural work. The specification abides a new AWS standard for such facilities built in the U.S., whereby mix designs’ embodied carbon metrics are at least…

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LafargeHolcim grows EPD library, shrinks concrete and cement carbon intensities

Sources: LafargeHolcim, Chicago; CP staff

To address calls for streamlining embodied carbon in private and public work, LafargeHolcim plans to issue Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) covering shipments from its U.S. Aggregates and Construction Materials (ACM) and Cement businesses. It will enlist top auditors and EPD Program Operators to prepare, verify and host a library of ready mixed concrete or cement declarations abiding the latest criteria for quantifying carbon dioxide emissions throughout raw material, processing, delivery and finishing phases. 

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