Boston’s mayor’s office has issued an executive order forbidding the use of fossil fuels during construction and major renovation projects on city-owned buildings. The move is effective for all new…

Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has teamed up with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create digital tools for airports to estimate the embodied carbon in new…

A US-based 3D print construction company, Hive 3D, is printing five affordable homes made with near-zero carbon concrete in the tiny Texas town of Round Top, west of Houston. It…

Skanska USA has partnered with the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) to create a taskforce focusing on decarbonisation and carbon reporting, with the aim of creating a standardised guidebook…

António Guterres, the UN secretary general, has called on cement makers to eliminate their carbon emissions by 2050. Speaking at a meeting in Zürich, Guterres and Thomas Guillot, the chief…

Saudi tourism developer Red Sea Global (RSG) has agreed to lay carbon-negative concrete pavers at its large landscape nursery in Saudi Arabia. The pavers are made by Partanna, which claims…

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) have discovered that adding charcoal to cement can result in a concrete that absorbs more carbon than is created by its production thanks to…

French materials producer Saint-Gobain has begun production of zero-carbon plasterboard at its modernised plant in Fredrikstad, southeast Norway. The company says its decarbonisation of the manufacturing process was made possible…

The drive to normalise wood as a primary building material in Europe continues with the start of a mass timber commercial building in Helsinki, Finland, developed by Finnish pension insurer,…

Mexican cement company Cemex has invested an undisclosed amount in clean energy startup Waste to Energy Advanced Solutions (WtEnergy) to develop its process of transforming solid waste into synthesis gas…

UK consulting engineer Arup has announced at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) the creation of a dataset displaying the whole-life carbon emissions of almost 1,000 buildings across 30 countries…

North Carolina clean energy company Net Power plans to build the world’s first utility-scale gas power plant in Texas that will emit almost no CO2 thanks to its carbon capture…