The concrete industry is demonstrating leadership in its ability to deliver and quantify carbon reductions in the built environment, but challenges remain. Concrete represents a substantial portion – often 50% or greater – of a building’s total embodied carbon footprint. Amid growing demand for climate-resilient structures and the rise of low-carbon procurement policies like “Buy Clean”, the cement and concrete industries have committed to reducing embodied carbon.
Industry-wide innovation is driving the push toward net-zero concrete, but concrete producers alone cannot solve this challenge. Architects, engineers, contractors and project stakeholders, each of whom play a crucial and interrelated role in selecting concrete products, must work together to achieve meaningful reductions in carbon emissions.
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