The United States will need to rapidly deploy carbon management in the near-term to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector by 2035 and economy-wide by 2050, Department of Energy (DOE) officials contend. To those ends, the White House has directed agencies to implement carbon management policies responsibly so that they deliver clear benefits to communities and workers…
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CRH Ventures musters SCM, CO2 mineralization, novel material specialists
Sources: CRH Ventures, Madrid; CP staff CRH Ventures is accepting applications from Seed- and Series A- or B-stage construction or climate technology companies through December 16 for its latest accelerator, Sustainable Building Materials. The accelerator program enables the investment arm of Dublin-based CRH Plc to identify innovative materials and practices to lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce waste and improve energy use…
Read MoreResearchers gauge lower emission concrete, steel price sensitivities
Sources: The Climate Group, London; CP staff A global survey assesses construction and other industry stakeholder perspectives on two principal load-bearing materials produced at lower than normal levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Among respondents, 40 percent say they would be willing to pay a premium for emissions reductions of 25 percent or higher for concrete, while 47 percent would be…
Read MoreCarbonBuilt eyes new concrete plant deployments with Meta support
Sources: CarbonBuilt, Los Angeles; CP staff Dovetailing their participation in “Leadership and Green Growth,” a Climate Week New York City panel, officials of CarbonBuilt and Facebook host Meta Platforms announced a plan to broaden adoption of the former company’s Reversa binder and process technology, where carbon dioxide is sequestered in concrete and mix designs require lower than normal volumes of…
Read MoreEPA publishes Buy Clean construction materials label program primers
The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention has outlined an implementation plan for a program and publicly accessible registry providing data on greenhouse gas emissions attending principal building and infrastructure project inputs. The EPA Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials will define parameters and thresholds informing the White House Federal Buy Clean Initiative, which…
Read MorePaving the Way: Carbon Sequestration in Concrete to Mitigate Environmental Impact
Concrete, the most extensively used manmade material worldwide, contributes an estimated 8 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. With annual volume running 30 gigatonnes, concrete consumption is over 3.5 tonnes of per person. The majority of the GHG emissions (88.5 percent) emanate from production of portland cement, the essential ingredient in concrete. Carbon sequestration in concrete presents a promising avenue…
Read MoreEPA funding fuels NRMCA promotion of low carbon concrete
Sources: 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 MoreACPA, NPCA, PCI project garners nearly $10M EPA grant
Sources: 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 MoreHolliday Rock partners with graphene developer for admixture testing
Sources: Rimere, Newport Beach, Calif.; CP staff Rimere, a developer of processes extracting high value compounds from natural gas, has entered a codevelopment agreement with California neighbor Holliday Rock, a key player in ready mixed, aggregate and asphalt production, to quantify the potential of graphene to improve concrete strength, elasticity, shrinkage, shielding and durability. Composed of a single layer of…
Read MoreGHG Inventory shows cement plant CO2 emissions’ positive trend
The latest Environmental Protection Agency Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks cites 2022 GHG loads of 5.489 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, a 1.3 percent increase from the prior year. The GHG Inventory factors emissions of CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride and nitrogen trifluoride—all pegged for their global warming potential when released to…
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