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Monterrey, Mexico. August 22, 2024– Cemex achieved a 10% reduction in carbon emissions from transporting aggregates and concrete in France in 2023 compared to 2021. This achievement aligns with Cemex’s three-year commitment to FRET21, a French initiative to reduce CO2emissions from freight tran...
Cement and concrete are the largest manufactured product on Earth, which are the backbone of our modern built structure. The production of cement is characterized with high energy consumption and CO2 emission, which accounts for 8% of the total carbon emissions around the world. Therefore, reducing...
According to the experiments, it is concluded that when a cost increase of 10% is assumed, the embodied energy and the CO2 emissions can suffer an overall reduction of up to 22% and 63%, respectively. A second group identified in the bigram analysis corresponded to crack detection and ...
The cement and concrete industry cannot do this alone.Collaboration with industry and private partners will be imperative to realize the multitude of solutions that the Roadmap outlines. To bring down CO2 emissions from all sources, including the building sector, we must recognize the way that our...
UK:The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has published its 2050 Climate Ambition, a joint industry commitment to net-zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050. The association’s 40 members have committed to, “eliminating direct energy-related emissions and maximizing the c...
The future of construction is built on a foundation of low-carbon concreteThe production and use of concrete for construction alone accounts for roughly 7% of global CO2 emissions. Manfred Grünberger from Doka delves into the critical challenge of achieving net zero in the c...
As can be seen, the production stage (A1-A3) is dominating in terms of CO2 emissions, and the emissions from the transport of the products to the construction site are only 1–3% of the total GWP for the various solutions. The steel culvert has by far the lowest carbon footprint with ...
It’s estimated that up to eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions are the result of concrete production, and most of that comes from heating limestone to very high temperatures to create calcium, a key component of the chemical reaction that forms concrete. Previous researc...
Except for that one problem. The cement-firing process not only consumes energy, but also releases significant amounts of CO2from the limestone. Consequently, the concrete industry is a major emitter of greenhouse gases and responsible for up to 9% of artificial greenhouse gas emissions worldwide....