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...concrete and how it can help reduce the carbon footprint of eco homes & sustainable construction...  Find more pages about sustainable and resilient green building techniques in the Ecohome Green Building Guide and these pages here :  How CO2-cured concrete is changing the game Future-proof building techniques ...

...concrete Our feelings about concrete are quite straight forward. Use as little concrete as possible, and until carbon negative concrete is readily available that doesn't use diminishing sand or gravel reserves, then use alternatives to concrete wherever viable. We highlighted this recently in our mid-rise construction...

...concrete The embodied carbon and operational carbon of mid-rise buildings in Canada and northern USA was studied in-depth in the wood v concrete mid-rise construction report recently completed by Ecohabitation in Quebec.   The infographic is below, and the complete 128 page report including appendices and a copy of thi...

...concrete in 2023, and have it available to licensees sometime in 2024. Well you heard it first on Ecohome, a viable Bio-based concrete alternative is on it's way!    Now you know about carbon negative bio-concrete, CMU or Cinder Blocks and Ready-Mix concrete coming soon from Prometheus Materials, read more here ab...

...concrete. Buildings account for the majority of climate change causing emissions, and concrete is the most carbon intensive building product that goes into houses and buildings. Reducing concrete (and emissions from concrete) in homes can be done a few ways – first by building smaller houses, secondly by choosing a sla...

...Concrete Form construction. To learn more, visit the ICFMA here. About American Concrete Pumpers Association The American Concrete Pumping Association was founded in 1974 with the objectives to promote concrete pumping as the choice method of placing concrete, and to encourage and educate the concrete pumping industry ...

...concrete without cement that effectively makes the product carbon-negative. In partnership with Patio Drummond, a company with over 70 years experience in precast concrete product production, an extraordinary revolution in precast concrete products has commenced in 2021.  What is the problem with cement and concrete? P...