Lower Embodied Carbon Concrete

 

CARBONSENSE®

We developed a product line of ready mix concrete, recycled aggregates, and performance cementitious products to reduce concretes carbon impact on construction and infrastructure. CarbonSense® products and solutions have been specially designed and tested to help you reduce carbon emissions and reach net-zero targets. What’s more, all of our concrete produced in our service area is all developed, tested, and validated in our CCRL/ASTM-certified research & development lab using ConcreteAI™. This innovative technology is a proprietary machine learning program that allows us to shorten the time to market by predicting strengths and performance of a mix design without numerous iterations of mortar and concrete trials.

 

 

 

WHAT IS EMBODIED CARBON?

What exactly is embodied carbon? This refers to the emissions of greenhouse gasses emitted from the development, transporting, and installation of building materials. Accumulatively speaking, embodied carbon is the carbon footprint that a building has during construction before becoming fully operational. Upon completion, the CO₂ emissions of a building’s lighting, heat and energy usage make up a structure’s operational carbon.

 

 

READY MIX CONCRETE	AGGREGATES	CEMENT
CARBONSENSE®	RECYCLED CONCRETE	PERFORMANCE CEMENT
CARBONSENSE® PLUS		PERFORMANCE SCMS
CARBONSENSE® ULTIMATE		CARBONSENSE® CEMENT

Denotes the amount of carbon reduced. 

 

CARBONSENSE DATA CENTER FLOORS | NORTHBROOK, IL

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) funded the test development and deployment of four concretes of varying levels of embodied carbon, as a collaborative effort among leading technology innovators Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Meta, and Microsoft to drive the adoption of lower-carbon concrete in data center construction. This collective endeavor aligns with the objectives in a previously issued industry call to action. The full-scale demonstration was conducted at the main laboratory of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. (WJE) in Northbrook, IL, as a proxy to test the application of lower-carbon concrete for data center floors, targeting a significant reduction potential in greenhouse gas emissions.

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CARBONSENSE DATA CENTER TILT-UP PANELS | ST. LOUIS, MO

In November 2023, a consortium of industry stakeholders poured and erected three experimental concrete tilt-up wall panels to compare performance between common and innovative concrete mixes, each of which achieves varying levels of embodied carbon reduction when compared to industry average benchmarks. This work was partially funded by the client and various research/NGO groups: Breakthrough Energy Foundation and Climate Works Foundation.

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CARBONSENSE® CONCRETE PRODUCT LINE

EPDs

We provide plant and mix-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in accordance with strict international standards certified by ASTM. These EPDs are third-party verified documents that quantify the environmental information for the lifecycle of a product to allow for comparisons of other products with the same function. By evaluating these EPDs, designers and builders can determine the long-term environmental impact of products.

It’s vitally important to discuss project specs and net-zero targets as early in the process as possible, especially with material suppliers. Discuss your sustainability goals with us to learn more about how you can build greener with less embodied carbon. We're able to provide EPD documentation for any product at any of our many locations. To see a list of all our locations, visit our locations page.