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Concrete Technologies Targeting Climate Change

Climate Action

Climate Action

Technologies Targeting Climate Change


Concrete will play a fundamental role in the transformation that the built environment requires to mitigate Climate Change. More importantly, in order to achieve rapid and impactful mitigation of Climate Change effects, CEMEX believes the key is innovation. Lead by CEMEX Global R&D and CEMEX Ventures, the company is advancing cutting-edge research and developing a wide range of technologies and construction solutions that are contributing to the mitigation of CO2 emissions, enhancement of energy efficiency of buildings, improvement of resilience, intensification of long-lasting structures and the maximization of resources by circulating products, components, and materials in use at the highest possible levels at all times.

CEMEX's portfolio of concrete technologies, construction solutions and global brands offers lightness, porosity, resistance, ductility and a number of other unique features that fulfill the increasingly demanding performance requirements of sustainable buildings, structures and cities.

Recarbonation

Energy Efficiency

Resilience

Life-Cycle

 

Circular Economy

Recarbonation

A key characteristic of concrete is carbonation, which is the gradual absorption of CO2 during the life-cycle of the concrete structures in the buildings. During the life of a built structure, up to 25% of the process emissions related to the production of the cement can be absorbed. In collaboration with key partners and start-ups, CEMEX is developing advanced research to accelerate this carbonation process.

Energy Efficiency

Making use of concrete’s unique capacity to manage heat (insulate, reduce, absorb, retain, reflect and conduct), CEMEX has developed a palette of concrete technologies that enable energy savings in buildings and cities.

Resilience

Through advanced material engineering, CEMEX takes advantage of the porosity of the material to develop solutions that manage water to reduce the magnitude and/or duration of disruptive events such as floods or droughts. Furthermore, CEMEX concrete technologies provide construction solutions with the capacity to resist fire, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Life-Cycle

CEMEX has enhanced the inherent durability and long-lasting characteristics of concrete to develop products that can easily be placed under extreme weather conditions and will require minimum maintenance throughout the entire life of the construction.

Circular Economy

CEMEX has focused strong efforts on developing in-house technology to reduce both inputs of materials and outputs of waste. To exemplify, CEMEX unique fiber-reinforced concrete technology eliminates the need of steel reinforcement in structures, enabling thinner elements which lead to a more efficient use of materials. On the other hand, CEMEX technologies make use of waste streams to generate products and solutions with identical performance as conventional concrete such as reuse of returned concrete, use of recycled aggregates and use of by-products from other industries. 

We are strongly committed to continuing investing in Research and Development (R&D) to deliver innovative solutions and drive a business model that benefits both the environment and society and we will continue to promote and encourage the use of sustainable products among our clients (developers, architects, government, etc.) by investing in technical capacity building that generates the foundations of eco-friendly decision making and enable the building environment to transition towards the use of lasting and sustainable products. We have already identified and committed the needed capital expenditure to achieve our 2030 target, and we are determined to align our future investment to our Net-Zero CO2 concrete goal by 2050. Additionally, we are also decided to keep on adapting our roadmap and investment needs in line with the Paris Agreement commitments to the latest climate scenarios as they evolve and become available.

As CEMEX, we go hand in hand with our clients and partners in creating a low carbon economy where the use of innovative building materials and solutions is driving the market. We will continue to provide green building services to promote building codes and certifications which derive in high performance building standards.

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