High Seeped 2 London tunnels team Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture bags funding from Innovate UK’s £3.2M pot for trialling repurposed London Clay as an alternative to carbon-intensive Portland cement.
The construction industry should focus on reducing the use of new concrete before looking at lower carbon technologies, says Ramboll Buildings decarbonisation lead Paul Astle.
Pre-cast piling specialist Roger Bullivant has agreed on an in-principle volume order for Concretene’s graphene-enhanced admixture that aims to reduce the embodied carbon in concrete.
A new transatlantic academic research project will focus on strengthening global coastal sea defences.
The Hochtief Murphy Joint Venture has carried out the world’s largest continuous pour of cement-free Earth Friendly Concrete in a tunnel drive shaft on National Grid’s £1bn London Power Tunnels phase 2.
Engineering and construction company Laing O’Rourke has made low carbon concrete mandatory on all its new UK projects in a bid to significantly cut its carbon emissions.
A recently launched UK-based demonstrator project to trial zero-emissions cement on an industrial scale has successfully conducted the first in a series of pilot-scale melts.
A new guidewall on the London tunnels section of High Speed 2 (HS2) has been built using basalt reinforcement and low carbon concretes, replacing conventional steel and concrete.
Ground stabilisation and soil reinforcement manufacturer Tensar International has revealed what is inside its "black box" - a new, next-generation geogrid, design methodology and design software.
UK-based construction and engineering firm Laing O’Rourke is to replace red diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) in all its UK heavy machinery before the end of March.
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