London, 5 December 2024 - Manufacturers, startups, and research organisations across the UK have joined forces to advance the use of artificial intelligence to drive industrial decarbonisation.
Developed as a new US and Canadian standard, CarbonStar® To Help Decarbonize Concrete and Slow Climate Change
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 30, 2024 - The Smart Surfaces Coalition, CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association), the World Cement Association, and the American Public Health Association announce the introduction of CarbonStar®, a new binational standard to quantify the carbon impact of concrete. CarbonStar [CSA/ANSI R118:2024, CarbonStar®: Concrete Carbon Intensity Quantification and Verification] provides a simple, rigorous way to compare the embodied carbon in concrete. Concrete is the most-used building material on the planet and is responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
23 October 2024
Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest integrated manufacturers of building materials and solutions, has recently commissioned the first industrial concrete recycling plant in Poland, near Katowice, to recycle 100% of demolition concrete. It is equipped with Fives' breakthrough FCB Rhodax® technology, which releases all the components of demolition concrete in the highest quality.
London, 2 July 2024 - The World Cement Association (WCA) announced today it is welcoming Alfalah ul Alami (AuA), a mining and construction materials production company, based in Afghanistan, as an Associate Corporate Member.
London, 5 June 2024 - The World Cement Association (WCA) announced today that it is welcoming one of Algeria's leading cement producers, Spa Biskria Ciment, as its newest Corporate Member.
London, 30 May 2024 - The 7th World Cement Association (WCA) Annual Conference convened on May 18th and 19th 2024, in Nanjing, China, focusing on the theme of 'Strategy and Performance.'