We know that the linear way we build now – where materials make a one-way trip from the earth to landfill – is dangerously unsustainable. It assumes too many infinites:…

Researchers from the University of Missouri’s College of Engineering have been given a $1.2m grant to develop environmental product declarations (EPDs) for asphalt made with ground rubber tires. Their goal…

The Biden-Harris administration this week unveiled a series of pledges made by some state and city governments along with cement manufacturers, construction firms, developers and tech companies to use lower-emission…

The Danish Energy Agency has launched tenders worth $4.2bn to build a carbon capture and storage network.   The tenders cover the capture, transportation and geological storage of fossil, biogenic…

Germany will have to spend €120bn if it is to make its public buildings carbon neutral by 2045, according to a report commissioned by the German Energy Agency (DENA). The…

Construction firms looking to cut their operational CO2 emissions shouldn’t wait for widespread plant electrification or the advent of green hydrogen because there are many ways to improve plant productivity…

Skanska Integrated Solutions will oversee design and construction on a $500m, decade-plus-long decarbonisation plan for Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The college, founded in 1769, has committed to reach…

Researchers from the University of Oxford say rebuilding Ukraine’s steel sector as a zero-emissions one would generate $77bn extra gross value added (GVA) over 20 years compared to restoring the…

Like many people, I’ve been concerned about the climate crisis for a long time. But also like many people, I could compartmentalise. Sometimes it’s top of my mind, other times…

In Saudi Arabia, construction has begun on the first overseas plant for Hoffmann Green Cement, a French start-up selling lower-carbon cement. Founded in 2014 and with €6m in revenues last…

To mark World Environment Day, this month’s 21CC podcast digs into a complex and difficult question: Should we just stop building? Construction is the single biggest source of greenhouse gases,…

The government of Ireland has issued guidelines aimed at reducing the amount of embodied carbon in public construction projects. The measures look to reduce the use of conventional concrete, increase…

Ten companies in the construction sector have formed an alliance to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.   The Community of Sustainable Equipment Players, or the Communauté des Acteurs du Matériel…

Austrian materials producer Wienerberger says its carbon-neutral concrete roof-tile factory in Hungary will “set a new standard across Europe”. The €30m, 7,300-sq-m plant in Hejopapi will be fully automated, with…

In Australia, a voluntary alliance of tier 1 contractors, government agencies, specialist subcontractors, engineering firms, cost consultants, architects, and material manufacturers – representing the whole construction supply chain – are…

A new company that makes lower-carbon cement from the carbon dioxide captured from the flue of a conventional cement plant has opened its first facility in Redding, California. The new…

Heidelberg Materials North America has awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for a carbon-capture system at its cement plant in Edmonton, Canada to contractor Kiewit and MHI-LCSC, part of…

Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has won a contract from Gasunie to assess the feasibility of an offshore hydrogen network in the Dutch North Sea. Gasunie is a gas network operator…