Gotham Ready Mix, a concrete supplier in New York City, is no stranger to innovation, delivering performance materials to mid- and high-rise residential or commercial projects across the Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx boroughs. The producer started in 2019 with 35 trucks and three plants in Brooklyn and Bronx. Fast-forward to 2024 and it has grown drastically. Gotham Ready Mix…
Read MoreSources: One Click LCA, Helsinki and New York; CP staff One Click LCA, a sustainability platform for construction stakeholders, presents Materials Compass as a new tool giving designers, engineers, and specifiers access to the world’s largest construction life-cycle assessment (LCA) database—showing the environmental impact of 250,000-plus construction materials or products. With comprehensive global data from environmental product declarations (EPD), Materials…
Read MoreThe Department of Energy Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) will create a Cement and Concrete Center of Excellence to accelerate the development and adoption of novel low-carbon material technologies. U.S. National Laboratories can receive up to $9 million through an upcoming competitive call to organize and lead the effort. DOE and IEDO officials envision the center as a) supporting…
Read MoreSources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association has secured a $9.63 million Environmental Protection Agency Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Construction Materials and Products Program grant, enabling the group and its Build With Strength team to further educate the architectural and engineering communities on designing and specifying low carbon concrete.…
Read MoreSources: National Precast Concrete Association, Carmel, Ind.; Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Chicago; CP staff The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected a joint National Precast Concrete Association, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute and American Concrete Pipe Association project to receive a $9.975 million grant in the Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products Program. One of 38 selected for nearly $160 million in…
Read MoreSources: Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C.; CP staff The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $2.4 million to advance a project boosting the number of facility-specific Environmental Product Declarations from Portland Cement Association, American Coal Ash Association, Natural Pozzolan Association and Slag Cement Association members. The project will entail PCA distributing up to $1.5 million in grants to eligible…
Read MoreSources: Concrete Sustainability Hub at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; CP staff A new report from the MIT-hosted Concrete Sustainability Hub probes statistical and scientific methods for measuring carbon dioxide uptake in hardened concrete and other cement-based products (CBP). It proposes a framework to account for carbon uptake in Product Category Rules (PCRs), documents key to creating verifiable environmental product…
Read MoreSources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; CP staff The Environmental Protection Agency invites comments through April 4 on “Criteria for Product Category Rules (PCRs) to Support the Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials.” Posted here, the 30-page document offers guidelines to improve PCRs by establishing consistent data quality and transparency requirements for Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). The proposed criteria…
Read MoreSources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; CP staff The Environmental Protection Agency has opened to public comment a draft approach for implementing an Inflation Reduction Act-funded Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials. The $100 million undertaking will support the White House Buy Clean Initiative, applicable to Departments of Defense and Transportation and General Services Administration procurement, by helping define…
Read MoreIncreasing demand for low carbon concrete, transparency, and digitization are driving a radical transformation in how EPDs are developed and used. Industry demand for low carbon concrete and the critical need to measure reduced carbon metrics are driving radical change in the concrete industry, which increases monthly with new legislation, investor and commercial demand influencing construction materials production and specifications.…
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