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5 Hot Environmental and Sustainability Topics for 2013

As I gaze into the crystal ball for the year 2013, I believe that there are multiple environmental and sustainability issues that will come to the forefront for the construction materials industries...

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Chase & PNC Bank's Sustainability Program Shortcomings

A lot of companies these days are jumping on the sustainability bandwagon. Some are doing great jobs at it, and are really changing their organizations and industries, while others are just giving it...

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Is concrete hazardous waste? Is concrete a hazardous material?

I get the question on is concrete hazardous waste a lot, and while the answer seems pretty clear to me, for some reason, it keeps coming up. Let's take the question of is concrete a hazardous waste,...

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Concrete Environmental Issues & The Ideal Concrete Plant

About a month ago, I was talking to a precast producer about his new environmental management system, and how it was impacting his operation. He said his costs had dropped slightly, his regulators...

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8 Environmental Issues That Could Change in 2012

The other week I was flipping through an old magazine in a doctor's office, and it was discussing the hot environmental issues of... 2007! It's funny, so much has changed, but really, we're all still...

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Is transparent concrete sustainable? Concrete can add to sustainability

I read an amazing article (the link is at the bottom of the page) today about a concrete block that contains optical fiber strands that actually let an amazing amount of light transmit through. The...

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Concrete Recycling & Concrete Reclaiming Part 2

Last week, I wrote about some of the low tech ways of dealing with returned concrete, as well as hardened concrete recycling (creating recycled concrete aggregate). Check it out here. In this blog,...

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5 Sustainble Steps You Can Take by Week's End

Sustainability - we hear a lot about, and I've been blogging quite a bit about it lately. Okay, we get it, sustainble practices are environmentally and economically beneficial - but doesn't becoming...

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The 3 P's of Concrete Sustainability

We've all heard of the 3 P's of sustainability right? People, planet, and profit. They all directly and indirectly relate and influence each other, and they all impact your business. You might also...

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