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Vancouver’s building landscape is about to get a lot greener. As Lafarge Canada releases new Environmental Product Declarations for their ECOPact concrete, the company’s low-carbon concrete, BC builders now know exactly what impact they have – and how their concrete choices change that impact.
An Environmental Product Declaration, or EPD, that documents and tracks the life-cycle environmental impact of a product. “It’s like a nutrition label,” says Morkos Hanes, Manager, at the Lafarge WCAN Technical and Development Centre where the data was collected for the EPDs. “We know exactly how our ECOPact concretes impact BC’s atmosphere, resources, waste flows, and more.”
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Global Building and Construction Industry Report 2021: Technology Advances Enabling Sustainability in the Market - ResearchAndMarkets.com
April 13, 2021 GMT
DUBLIN (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 13, 2021
This research service titled ‘Technology Advances Enabling Sustainability in Building & Construction Industry’ focuses on identifying and analysing technologies that can improve sustainability of the building and construction industry. The research also evaluates the impact of these technologies on the SDGs.
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The increasing industrialization and urbanization activities will further increase the global energy consumption and the subsequent carbon emissions thereby increasing the negative impacts of the building & construction industry on the environment. The improper disposal of hazardous and demolition waste into the environment in the construction industry also has a negative i
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Global Concrete Pump Market Report 2020-2027 with Short-term Impact of COVID-19 on Production/Procurement for 2020 & 2021 - ResearchAndMarkets.com
February 18, 2021 GMT
Global Concrete Pump Market to Reach $5.3 Billion by 2027
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Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Concrete Pump estimated at US$3.8 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$5.3 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 4.9% over the analysis period 2020-2027.
Truck Mounted Concrete Pumps, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 5.4% CAGR and reach US$2.1 Billion by the end of the analysis period. After an early analysis of the business implications of the pandemic and its induced economic crisis, growth in the Stationary Concrete Pumps segment is readjusted to a revised 4.7% CAGR for the next 7-year period.
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Valmont Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Results
February 17, 2021 GMT
OMAHA, Neb. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 17, 2021
Valmont Industries, Inc. (NYSE: VMI), a leading global provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure development and irrigation equipment and services for agriculture, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 26, 2020.
Fourth Quarter 2020 Highlights
(all metrics compared to Fourth Quarter 2019 unless otherwise noted)
Net Sales of $798.4 million increased 16.8% led primarily by significantly higher sales in Irrigation and Utility Support Structures
Operating Income of $54.1 million, or 6.8% of sales ($68.8 million or 8.6% of sales adjusted 1 ) compared to $50.8 million or 7.4% of sales last year