News First low-carbon, affordable homes printed in Texas 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…
News Skanska USA creates construction decarbonisation taskforce 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…
News “No time to lose”: UN urges concrete manufacturers to plan for net zero 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…
News Red Sea tourism scheme pilots carbon negative concrete 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…
Innovation Researchers find way to make carbon-negative concrete 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…
News Saint-Gobain to produce zero-carbon plasterboard 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…
Trends Helsinki’s latest timber commercial building ate 6,000 tonnes of CO2 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,…
News Cemex invests in syngas maker to cut carbon 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…
News Arup launches whole-life carbon emissions dataset at COP27 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…
News Almost no CO2: US firm to build world’s first carbon captured gas power plant 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…