Jabil Inc., an electronic manufacturing services company, utilized stone wool ceiling panels in its new St. Petersburg, Florida headquarters, to meet acoustic requirements and sustainability efforts.
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Recent efforts in North America to reduce embodied carbon in concrete are similar to British solutions to eradicate cobras in colonial India. Simple solutions often create bigger problems than the complex ones they were trying to solve.
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Holcim US, a sustainable building materials manufacturer, recently announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), HIIT Contracting, and Baker Concrete Construction to create innovative, low-carbon concrete mixes, promissing 35 to 45 percent lesser CO2 emissions.
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With buildings accounting for nearly 40 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), it is understandable why such an immense focus is being placed on them in the quest to achieve net-zero emission targets by 2050.
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Students and faculty at Virginia Tech recently completed the New River Train Observation Tower project in rural Blacksburg.
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