• Ready Mix Supplier Adopts the 2030 Challenge

    U.S. Concrete, Inc. has announced that its San Francisco-based operating company, Central Concrete Supply Co., has become the first ready mix concrete producer in the United States to adopt the 2030 Challenge for Products.

     
  • The Home Depot and U.S. Green Building Council Launch New Database of Green Building Products

    leedhomedepot.com offers information on products that may contribute to the requirements of the LEED for Homes program

     
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    Taking the Green Leed

    The Harm A. Weber Academic Center is a recently completed green building at Judson University in Elgin, Ill. The 88,000-square-foot building houses the new Benjamin P. Browne Library and the Division of Art, Design and Architecture.

     
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    Decorative Concrete Industry Reacts to Changing Market Conditions

    Major changes can be expected in the decorative concrete industry due to fluxation of the housing industry.

     
  • Sustainability and green building

    It's one thing to talk about sustainability and green building; it's something else to actually do something about it. And that's where Holcim is stepping up.

     
  • Green Construction is Here to Stay

    Whether you are completely convinced that human activity is causing global warming or think Al Gore invented it the way he did the Internet, you likely are to be involved in a project in the very near future that incorporates sustainability concepts. Sustainability is here to stay and there is no...

     
  • Consider concrete homes as a way of cutting down on carbon dioxide emissions.

    Consider concrete homes as a way of cutting down on carbon dioxide emissions.