Watch webinar: Carbon capture and cement – How carbon capture technology is decarbonising construction today

Concrete is the second most used material on earth, behind only water. With cement, the binder in concrete, generating as much as 8% of global CO2 emissions, decarbonising construction is hard. The post Watch webinar: Carbon capture and cement – How carbon capture technology is decarbonising construction today appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Carbon Capture and Cement: How carbon capture technology is decarbonising construction today

Concrete is the second most used material on earth, behind only water. With cement, the binder in concrete, generating as much as 8% of global CO2 emissions, decarbonising construction is hard. The post Carbon Capture and Cement: How carbon capture technology is decarbonising construction today appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Re:Construction podcast – Episode 147

Decarbonising construction machinery

Timber construction gets green light from government in new roadmap

The UK government has given its clearest signal yet that it’s serious about decarbonising construction as it laid out its Timber in Construction Roadmap late last year, says David Hopkins, chief executive of Timber Development UK. The post Timber construction gets green light from government in new roadmap appeared first on Planning, Building & Construction Today.

Avoiding perverse incentives: the progress on decarbonising construction

As contractors are increasingly being asked to consider embodied carbon and retrofit of commercial buildings, Construction News and Mitsubishi Electric brought together a group of those working in the field to hear about the issues involved On the panel Matthew Arnold, building performance manager, ISG… The post Avoiding perverse incentives: the progress on decarbonising construction appeared first on Construction News.