Spotlight | Why continually striving to be carbon competent makes good business sense

It is no secret that our industry is one of the highest generators of CO2 emissions. No matter how small or large the schemes we work on – wherever they are in the world – as civil and infrastructure engineers, we must maintain momentum on… The post Spotlight | Why continually striving to be carbon competent makes good business sense appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Low-carbon road job: Emissions cut in half with hydrogen and electric gear plus recycled asphalt

The approach prevented 630 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere, a 50% improvement on conventional methods. The post Low-carbon road job: Emissions cut in half with hydrogen and electric gear plus recycled asphalt appeared first on Construction Management.

Startup raises £4m to scale up production of fungi and biomass panels

Firm says its first insulated panel saves around 23kg of CO2 per sq m compared to incumbent systems. The post Startup raises £4m to scale up production of fungi and biomass panels appeared first on Construction Management.

Australia’s first timber fire station wins international prize

500 cu m of timber kept 1,742 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere, and was regrown in just 38 minutes. Australia’s first mass engineered timber fire station has taken the… The post Australia’s first timber fire station wins international prize appeared first on Global Construction Review.

CO2 reductions must double to meet UK net-zero targets

A new European Climate Neutrality Observatory report says that construction must double their efforts to hit UK net-zero targets. The post CO2 reductions must double to meet UK net-zero targets appeared first on Planning, Building & Construction Today.

Engineering with Rosie - Turning CO2 Into Building Materials, 22092022

In this video Rosie visits Mineral Carbonation International's pilot plant facility. There are a really wide range of technologies that you can use to take captured CO2 and turn it into a useful product, carbon capture and utilisation (CCU)

Just have a Think - How to capture 2 billion tonnes of CO2 AND fix our oceans, 31072022

Carbon Dioxide removal from our atmosphere is now an unavoidable and essential aspect of our climate mitigation challenge in the 21st Century. We've left it so late that just reducing our emissions is no longer enough. Now a UK based company called Brilliant Planet has perfected a method that, at full scale, can drawdown 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere every year while also restoring alkalinity levels to our ocean ecosystems

Undecided - How the CO2 battery could be the future of energy storage, 09082022

Carbon dioxide is infamous for being the major culprit of climate change, but what if this global warming villain could turn into a green energy hero? Believe it or not, carbon dioxide may be a key component in developing a new green energy battery that can be quickly deployed around the world. Could giant bladders of CO2 solve our energy storage problem?

SciShow - Cement: A Really Hard Problem, 11052020

Concrete sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere, but making it initially produces a lot of carbon dioxide as a byproduct. Fortunately, by rethinking the chemistry of cement altogether, we can actually use carbon dioxide to create our concrete instead.

DW Planet A - How to fix the world's concrete problem, 28012022

Concrete is simple, cheap, strong and lasts long. But the wonder material that's all around us is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions — and it's not easy to change that. So how can we build cities without killing the planet?

Is this the route to a greener concrete?