It shouldn’t cost significantly more to develop products that use less material or... More
Some producers don't use the cement substitute at all, which increases their costs. More
Why is Charlotte, N.C.'s largest concrete company negotiating to buy fly ash in Asia? More
Once upon a time the use of fly ash in ready mixed concrete was something to be avoided by ethical producers. How things have changed! Today fly ash is regarded as an important part of the answer to challenges faced by architects/engineers and concrete producers. More
Time changes everything. This is a phrase that even holds true for fly ash as time has made it an accepted part of concrete construction. Guest blogger Thomas H. Adams takes a look at this evolution More
Once upon a time the use of fly ash in ready mixed concrete was something to be avoided by ethical producers. How things have changed! Today fly ash is regarded as an important part of the answer to challenges faced by architects/engineers and concrete producers. More
Despite an industry-wide effort to make concrete more sustainable, combined with the recent EPA final ruling declaring fly ash non-hazardous, the use of fly ash in concrete mixes is on a steady decrease because there just isn’t enough of it. More
Tom Adams of the American Coal Ash Association sits down with Concrete... More
Environmentalists, lawmakers and Duke Energy are still trying to figure out what... More
In a Consent Decree signed by all of the parties to a federal lawsuit that sought to compel a deadline for EPA, the Agency agreed to a December 19, 2014, deadline and continued to signal that its final regulation would be promulgated under the “non-hazardous” Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA.”) More