Lafarge Canada Inc (Holcim group) has entered into a purchase power agreement (PPA) with Calgary-based electricity company, TransAlta Corp (TransAlta).
The company’s ECOPlanet T90 is a specialised engineered blend of cementitious and other construction materials that allows for a more efficient and cost-effective solution for backfilling underground mines.
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The Lafarge Canada Inc. Precast Plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has supplied a sustainable solution for the construction of the 18-story multi-use apartment building at 221 Stradbrook. This apartment building is located alongside the Red and Assiniboine Rivers and is only footsteps from the Historic Forks Market. The Stradbrook building boasts a total precast concrete design made possible by architect Dustin Sharrow of MMP Architects and the Lafarge design team.
The sustainability of precast is showcased by the building’s modern aesthetic, fire-resistant, and energy-efficient concrete panels. Precast concrete helps to moderate temperature, all the while reducing the operating costs for the people living at the apartments.
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2MENT, a first of its kind partnership to capture industrial levels of CO
2 emissions from a cement plant. The multi-phase project celebrates the completion of Phase II, construction to have the technology to capture and filter the CO
2 from the flue gas. This is a crucial component to achieve the next stage of capturing CO
2 flow at the Lafarge Richmond Cement facility in British Columbia.
“This has been a turbulent year for business and people due to the COVID-19 pandemic with many large-scale projects being put on hold, but the perseverance that the people working at the Richmond Cement plant continue to show is evident in the success of Project CO