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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 […]

Civil engineers need re-train themselves to think about how – through design – they can influence the very long operational life of infrastructure projects and make them efficient, low-carbon and fit-for-purpose for years to come, said Helen Patelidou, ARUP’s Associate Director Infrastructure at the CCC Summit ‘The Road to Carbon-Neutral Infrastructure’. Engineers in general are […]

The Sweden Green Building Council (SGBC) has been a pioneer in focusing on low carbon infrastructure,” says CEO, Cecilia Ehrenborg Williams. Speaking at the CCC Summit in Gothenburg, 19 June, she said: “We have a sense of urgency when it comes to really trying to fix it by being carbon neutral by 2050 and the […]

Speaking at the CCC Summit in Gothenburg 19 June, Mats Landén of WWF stressed the importance of business building sustainability into their business models. “From the business perspective, sustainability is at the end of the day really what needs to happen as a standard procedure for any business. Simply speaking, if you are not sustainable […]

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 […]

Summarising the CCC Summit ‘The Road to Carbon Neutral Infrastructure’ held in Gothenburg 19 June, conference moderator Dr Paul Toyne said the keys are collaboration and integrated supply chains. “What we need is collaboration, and that means we need to have integrated supply chains so we all understand what we are trying to achieve and […]

A staggering $350 trillion is to be invested solely in urban infrastructure globally by 2050. How to build it in a carbon neutral manner was the challenge faced by some of the industry’s most influential thinkers at the international Construction Climate Challenge (CCC) Summit in Gothenburg 19 June.   The focus for the latest CCC […]

Construction and demolition waste is the largest waste stream in Europe. The research project Constructivate aims to develop solutions that can be applied in the construction industry in order to increase recycling of construction and demolition waste. About 25–30 percent of the total waste generated in Europe every year comes from construction and demolition, and […]

When concrete constructions are complete, they save energy, last at least 100 years and absorb carbon dioxide during the user phase. But in the construction phase, more needs to be done to reduce concrete’s carbon emissions. Concrete is one of the oldest building materials in the world and reinforced concrete is the most common building […]

Legislation might have a role in dealing with the carbon challenge, but Andy Robinson, Partner, Urban Innovation Labs, believes that changing behaviors is the only real way to deal with the issue. Andy Robinson says that the first behavior lever is industry consensus. The industry needs to come together to tackle the carbon problem the […]

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?

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