Tech Comes to Cement

Here in the United States, we must continue to focus on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. There is much work to be done and many opportunities, but we also must remember to keep an eye on evolving technologies as we build fast and furious. If you attended World of Concrete earlier this year, then you know cement and concrete were large topics of conversation—specifically how to decarbonize and lower emissions.

Earlier this month, Peggy Smedley covered this in a blog, looking at how cement remains one of the largest industrial emitters of carbon emissions. What is needed is alternatives and innovative technologies to propel new options forward.

What else is needed is to determine how to decrease scope 3 emissions, which is no easy feat when all the supply-chain partners are taken into account.

As a reminder, Scope 1 are the greenhouse gas emissions a company makes directly, while Scope ...