Priorities for low-carbon design and sustainable construction
This week ICR looks at the fast-changing world of construction and the attempts to make it more sustainable. This follows the recent publication of the World Economic Forum's wh...
Concrete
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Holcim and Seqens build first recycled concrete building
Holcim and Seqens, a leading provider of social housing in France, are partnering to build Recygénie, the world’s first fully recycled concrete building. Drawing on its formulat...
Holcim supplies landmark Croatian tunnel
Holcim has supplied more than 120,000m 3 of its ECOPact low-carbon concrete to a tunnel project in Croatia, reducing the project’s CO 2 emissions by 30 per cent. In addition, ma...
Adbri successfully navigates challenging year
Australia-based Adbri released its 2022 financial results this week and reported a YoY revenue increase of 8.4 per cent to AUD1.7bn (US$1142m). While the building materials prod...
Pan-United Corp wins Tuas Port low-carbon concrete order
Pan-United Corp Ltd is driving sustainable change in Singapore’s built environment with the use of 360,000m 3 of CO 2 mineralised concrete over a 2.5-year period for the Tuas Po...
Vulcan Materials sees revenues advance in 2022 despite poor weather
Vulcan Materials has announced total revenue of US$7315m in 2022, up from US$5552m in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA came in at US$1626m in 2022, compared to US$1451m in 202...
MPA welcomes news of urgent review of UK planning policy
UK producers of essential materials for infrastructure projects have welcomed news that an urgent review of national planning policy for major projects is to be carried out. UK ...
GCCA names Concrete in Life photo of the Year winner
Overall and Urban Concrete Pro winner Ferdz Bedaña A stunning image of a skateboard park in the United Arab Emirates has been named Concrete in Life Photo of the Year by the Gl...
Holcim and 14Trees delivers on 3D printed Kenyan houses
Holcim has successfully completed the largest 3D-printed affordable housing to date through 14Trees, its joint venture with British International Investment, the UK’s Developmen...
Concrete Europe launched
The four European associations representing the concrete sector and its value chain, BIBM (the Federation of the European Precast Concrete Industry), CEMBUREAU (the European Cem...