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Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification

GCP Applied Technologies

Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. Fri, 11/02/2018 - 19:24. November 02, 2018. The webpage also provides downloads—helpful worksheets and a "Guidelines" PDF 1 —for plants to make strides toward sustainability. Material acquisition. michael.delros…. GCP Applied Technologies.

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VERIFI® In-transit Concrete Management Advances UK Concrete Barrier Projects

GCP Applied Technologies

VERIFI® In-transit Concrete Management Advances UK Concrete Barrier Projects. From monitoring the concrete batch consistency, to reducing rejected loads through remote insight, this intelligence has provided additional tools to assist Extrudakerb’s operations. GCP System: VERIFI® in-transit concrete management system .

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The 3 Rs of Sustainability Applied to Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In its most recent report, it found 600 million tons of construction and demolition (C&D) debris were generated in the United States in 2018. Nonetheless, the construction industry is making moves in the right direction, effectively reducing waste, reusing materials, and getting good recycling practices in place.

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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. Both are affected by the material science that goes into the product: How are they constructed? Where do the materials come from that make these products? Even sustainably made floors must be installed correctly. It is such a waste.

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Combining Mass Timber with Modularity

Pro Builder

AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITH MASS TIMBER A 2022 finalist for the Ivory Prize , which recognizes affordable-housing solutions, Forest to Home proposes an ecosystem of sustainable, working forest lands; rural towns that produce mass timber; and cities that use the engineered wood to create efficient, affordable housing.

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How two buildings in Seattle achieved high-strength concrete

GCP Applied Technologies

How two buildings in Seattle achieved high-strength concrete. Mon, 12/17/2018 - 15:45. December 17, 2018. Historically, the term "high-strength concrete" (HSC) has been relative. Cement and supplementary cementitious materials. michael.delros…. GCP Applied Technologies. 56- or 91-day test results).

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Monitoring mix design performance with an in-transit concrete management system

GCP Applied Technologies

Monitoring mix design performance with an in-transit concrete management system. Fri, 06/01/2018 - 14:37. June 01, 2018. Ready mix concrete producers can optimize fleet processes and avoid overdesign—adding extra cement to the mix—by way of an in-transit concrete management system , which is installed on every ready-mix truck.