Why Massachusetts Should Build With Safe Building Materials
In this episode, Gregg sits down with Senator Paul Feeney & Representative Dan Donahue of the Massachusetts State Legislature. They discussed H.2449 and S.1589 — An Act Relative to Safe Building Materials which would strengthen the building code & promote the use of non-combustible materials...
Utah Ready-Mixed Concrete Association Concrete Pavement Award Nomination
REGISTER NOW for the 2022 Utah Concrete Conference, hosted by the URMCA and ACI Intermountain Chapter. The Concrete Paving Awards will be announced at the conference, to be held March 9, 2022 at Little America, Salt Lake City....
Concrete Credentials: How an Influencer Thinks About Concrete
Andrew Athias, Social Media Coordinator for Silvi Group Companies, discusses with NRMCA’s Gregg Lewis why social media is more important than ever for the concrete industry, and how even small producers can make their mark on the internet. ...
Concrete Credentials: How Concrete is Tackling Embodied Carbon
How Concrete is Tackling Embodied Carbon and the importance of embodied carbon and the strides the concrete industry is making to reduce carbon output....
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Partners with NRMCA to Construct Concrete Homes Nationwide
Habitat for Humanity recently partnered with Build with Strength, backed by the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA), to construct resilient, affordable, and sustainable housing across the United States....
Concrete Credentials: Why Perspective Matters in Concrete
Concrete Credentials episode, Why Perspective Matters in Concrete, featuring Jennifer Mitchell, Sr. Manager, Design+Build at LinkedIn with NRMCA Executive Vice President Gregg Lewis, AIA, LEED AP. "The future for the concrete and construction industries is a much more sustainable one..."...
Why Concrete’s Future Looks Green
Concrete Credentials presents a conversation with Jamie Gentoso, CEO-- US Cement at LafargeHolcim and NRMCA Executive Vice President Gregg Lewis, AIA, LEED AP on how the concrete industry is working towards a greener future....
Concrete Innovations
Concrete is the most widely used building product in the world. New innovative concrete products and manufacturing methods include self-cleaning, bendable, cementless and self-consolidating concrete. ...
Grafton Architects’ Concrete Connoisseurs Win 2020 Pritzker Prize
“Concrete connoisseurs” Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Ireland's Grafton Architects, were awarded his week with the annual Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious honor for Peru's Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC). Conceived as a concrete cliff, the structure is massive, ...
“Concrete roads that charge electric vehicles could transform the way we travel.”
How to alleviate “range anxiety” when it comes to driving EVs? Research and testing are ongoing worldwide on the viability or “concrete ‘eRoads’ that would inductively charge EVs as they travel. This inductive charging is wireless and would occur if the vehicle is stationary or moving. ...
Pervious Concrete Can Help Check Global Warming & Help Recharge Groundwater
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Carbon Neutral Concrete Pledge
A year-end article in the Harvard Business Review named German cement company Heidelberg’s pledge to create carbon neutral concrete by 2050 as one of the Top Sustainability Stories of 2019... a first for the industry....
“Concrete homes tended to survive.”
The Getty Fire rages on. Neighborhoods are evacuated. Homes are destroyed. Firefighters “…make some tough decisions on which houses they were able to protect. Concrete homes tended to survive.”...