Build With Strength Meets with Leading Sustainability, Adaptation Firms

Build With Strength Senior Director, Building Innovations, Patrick Matsche has recently met with several leading architectural, engineering and contractor (AEC) firms that are determined to lower the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of their projects. Low carbon concrete, once an afterthought or one off, is now a priority for design firms. AEC firms KPFF Engineering, Mead & Hunt and Perkins+Will each hosted presentations discussing how to achieve low carbon concrete with currently available materials along with evolving processes, materials and technologies. These industry-leading firms looked to NRMCA to learn more about decarbonization strategies along with how the ready mixed industry is advancing sustainability, Matsche said.

Matsche presented the Top 10 Ways to Reduce Concrete’s Carbon Footprint and encouraged the use of Build With Strength’s performance-based specification review, NRMCA’s Carbon Calculator tool and consulting services to create low carbon concrete specifications in lieu of unnecessarily prescriptive language that impact the GWP reduction targets and goals of their clients’ projects. NRMCA’s Build With Strength and PaveAhead platforms offer design teams a range of education, promotion and execution support.

The meetings reinforced the concrete industry's proactive approach to sustainability and the essential role of collaboration in driving forward low carbon initiatives, ultimately transforming the built environment for a greener future while promoting concrete as the building material of choice. With the generous support of the ready mixed concrete industry, Build With Strength is recognized as a leading advocate, spearheading the effort to reduce and eliminate embodied carbon in buildings, roads and infrastructure.

For more information, contact Patrick Matsche at pmatsche@nrmca.org.