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31 August 2018

First electric ’emissions-free’ quarry tested by Volvo CE and Skanska

Swedish companies Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) and Skanska are turning the quarrying industry upside down in a groundbreaking study to create the world’s first ‘emission-free’ quarry. Drawing on the electromobility and automation expertise of the Volvo Group, the research project, dubbed Electric Site, aims to electrify each transport stage in a quarry – from […]
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11 July 2018

Volvo CE on track to meet targets of WWF Climate Savers programme

When Volvo CE joined the WWF Climate Savers programme it committed to reducing CO2 by 7 million tonnes in 5 years. It is fully on track to achieve this and is even ahead of the target, said Thomas Bitter, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Portfolio, Volvo CE. Speaking at the CCC Summit in […]
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13 September 2018

CCC brings together stakeholders to discuss international collaboration

In what could prove to be a first but significant step forward, participants at a recent Construction Climate Challenge seminar took the opportunity to meet and discuss possible international collaboration for making infrastructure more sustainable. “Just in Sweden alone, we see that there are several different initiatives who are all doing similar things, and we […]
14 September 2018

Skanska: Major short-term gains are possible in carbon reduction, but long-term innovation is vital.

Skanska is a world leading project development and construction group and has had a leading role in developing the roadmap to implement Sweden’s low carbon plan 2045.  While leading the process Skanska has succeeded in gathering the whole sector around common targets for carbon. “The construction industry is a really important part of emissions in […]
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19 September 2018

Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment launched at the Global Climate Action Summit

The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) has launched its ‘Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment’ as part of the Global Climate Action Summit. It is starting with 38 signatories, made up of 12 businesses, 22 cities and four states and regions, showing an unprecedented statement of coordinated action from business and cities, states and regions. Businesses across […]
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15 March 2018

CITT – One year into the project

Just over a year has passed since the CCC funded research project CITT started. What has happened in the project during the year? And are there some findings yet?
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