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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.
3 December 2024
Quarry Management
Ian Riley, WCA CEO, has authored an article on the impact of decarbonization on the outlook for cement.
19 November 2024
Aggregates Business
WCA CEO, Ian Riley has has commented about the recent COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and its role in shaping environmental policy.
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.
28 October 2024
Arabian Gulf Business Insight
Ian Riley, WCA CEO, & Amr Nader, CEO of A³&Co.® and WCA Member, have been interviewed by Arabian Gulf Business Insight on ‘Green’ cement and if it's falling short of meeting climate goals.
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.