Sustainability News in Construction and Infrastructure
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Upgrading, or retrofitting, the world’s iron and steel processing plants early could reduce carbon emissions by up to 70 gigatonnes by 2050, roughly equivalent to t...
Excessive noise and dust emissions result in damage to health in the long term. To protect not only employees on building sites, but also human and animal life in the sur...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) launched the second edition of its ground-breaking Whole Life Carbon Assessment for the Built Environment (WLCA) stand...
A research study conducted by Hebrew University’s Ph.D. candidate, Kaushal Gianchandani, under the guidance of Professors Nathan Paldor and Hezi Gildor from the Ins...
Just a couple decades ago, nitrogen oxide emissions routinely plagued cities’ skies and their residents’ lungs. These polluting reactive nitrogen oxide gases from the tai...
CDE, a leading supplier of sand and aggregate wet processing solutions for the waste recycling and natural processing sectors, has commissioned a waste recycling plant in...
XCMG’s electric and methanol-fuelled machines leading the way, with a strong commitment to sustainable strategies for green, low-carbon, and intelligent new infrast...
The Bosch fuel-cell power module is in volume production. And with that, the technology company’s recycling plan is getting underway. Fuel cells contain what are known as...
A new study led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified what may be a novel biological approach for removing extremely small and potentially dangerous plastic p...
A new study led by Cambridge University confirms that planting hedges between roadsides and school playgrounds can dramatically reduce children’s exposure to traffic-rela...
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new type of material that could offer a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to clean pollutants f...
Dozens of European cities could reach net zero carbon emissions over the next 10 years by incorporating nature into their infrastructure, according to a new study. Publis...
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology published their findings on the drastic short-term alterations in rivers accompanied by sh...
In a significant move towards addressing regulatory compliance and environmental obligations, SOCOTEC Consultancy (Scotland) has entered into a strategic partnership with...
Northumberland County Council is celebrating the launch of its new state-of-the-art solar car port array – one of the biggest of its kind in the UK. The project whi...
The built environment industry has today reached a major milestone with 200 companies leading the way for a sustainable future, including the launch of a ‘Future Workforc...
Cemex’s VIALOW, VIAFLOW®, and VIACOURT® asphalt, plus newer products that use a lower carbon bitumen, now form a new series of high-performance asphalt solutions which ha...
a climate-focused construction tech company, released a comprehensive report analysing the state of waste management in the construction industry. This industry-first rep...
In an important milestone for the £30 million ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads programme, a five year contract to provide monitoring and evaluation services h...
Cemex announced today that Cemex Ventures, its corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, has increased its stake in Carbon Upcycling. Carbon Upcycling’s patente...
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation introduced its AI-enabled, blockchain-based Supplier CO2 Emission Monitoring System (SCEMS) to manage the carbon emissions of it...
waste is a problem. Most plastics can’t be recycled, and many use finite, polluting petrochemicals as the basic ingredients. But that’s changing. In a study published tod...
Recently, XCMG’s XGC11000A crawler crane has successfully completed the hoisting and installation of the world’s first 2.7 MW efficient and compact tandem double-wind tur...
The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Kim, Byung-Suk) made a ground-breaking achievement in the field of ecological building t...
As the world hunts for technological solutions to climate change, the UK construction industry has seen the number of environment patents it files fall 56% in ten years,...
New Catalyst could help produce Sustainable Hydrogen from Water A team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed a new cataly...
Scrap metal services are an integral part of the construction industry. They allow for the efficient reuse of materials, thus reducing waste and costs associated with new...
Research findings from all around the world show that concrete roads have an important role to play in tackling the challenges of mobility and road infrastructure. From 2...
Leading construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has today published its ambitious journey to net zero. The strategy follows the launch of the business’ susta...
Komatsu Ltd. has developed a new concept medium-sized hydraulic excavator that combines a hydrogen fuel cell and Komatsu-developed key components to achieve carbon neutra...
As consumer trends shift and industries modernize, environmental, sustainability, and governance (ESG) standards no longer strictly apply to public companies trading in t...
Volvo Construction Equipment will showcase its large line-up of zero-emission machines as it joins more than 40 construction industry manufacturers and infrastructure-foc...
With the arrival of the compact automatic wastewater-recycling device, Elematic is underlining the ability of its production technology to make precast concrete elements...
OCL Regeneration has announced the launch of a new recycling centre in Medway’s Hoo peninsula, dedicated to asphalt, concrete, and other road and construction materials....
Gray steel or aluminium gantries for stationary toll systems on highways have been the industry standard for decades. However, the negative impact of steel on the environ...
QM Recycled Energy has been appointed the exclusive UK distributor of German company B2 Square’s Bio Bitumen. This is a completely new method of manufacturing aspha...
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. has announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded US$3.2 million to Solar MEAD, a joint project headed by CEMEX, Sandia National Labora...
Ferrovial, the sustainable infrastructure and mobility company, and RWE, a world-leading renewables player, have agreed on a partnership to analyse the joint development,...
A new method for removing the greenhouse gas from the ocean could be far more efficient than existing systems for removing it from the air. As carbon dioxide continues to...
Yara Marine has secured the three hundredth vessel contract for FuelOpt, its automated propulsion optimization system. The order strengthens Yara’s presence in the rapidl...
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