Greening the blacktop

Researchers are looking for ways to identify and fast-track asphalt innovations and slash the carbon cost of road surfacing. Helena Russell reports.

Replacing aggregate with subsoil to save carbon and waste on road projects

Turning subsoil into an aggregate replacement is already cutting carbon, cost and waste on new housing estates. So how have housebuilders stolen a march on big infrastructure? The post Replacing aggregate with subsoil to save carbon and waste on road projects appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Roundtable: Cutting the carbon cost of steel

The Architects’ JournalRoundtable: Cutting the carbon cost of steel How can the construction industry, the sector that consumes the most steel, reuse more of it? The post Roundtable: Cutting the carbon cost of steel appeared first on The Architects’ JournalKit Heren

Procurement provision in new PAS 2080 standard expected to drive whole life approach to carbon cost

The British Standards Institute (BSI) has launched a revision to the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2080 carbon management standard, which now covers the whole built environment rather than just infrastructure and is also now free to use. The post Procurement provision in new PAS 2080 standard expected to drive whole life approach to carbon cost appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Sulzer enables production of 3 billion liters of renewable fuels from waste at one of world’s largest biofuels facilities

Sulzer has supplied flow technology solutions to convert an existing US West Coast refinery into one of the world’s largest renewable biofuels plants. The pumps will support a number of critical applications to convert waste oils and fats into renewable fuels with a lower carbon cost. Once complete, the new facility is expected to produce […] The post <strong>Sulzer enables production of 3 billion liters of renewable fuels from waste at one of world’s largest biofuels facilities</strong> appeared first on Civil + Structural Engineer magazine.