Explore with CarbonCure: Case Studies, Featured Projects & Regulatory Framework

How imi Wins New Business Through Innovation

imi's Jeff McPherson, VP of Customer Development and Darrin Litteral, Quality Control Manager discuss how sustainability and innovation helped imi differentiate itself in the marketplace, win new business and maintain heightened brand awareness within the green building community.

Best Practices for Hot Weather Concreting

Watch this short 30-minute webinar featuring Jack Holley, a 40-year veteran of concrete quality control, as he shares lessons learned from working with concrete in Africa and Saudi Arabia that will help you reduce the potential detrimental impact of hot weather on concrete performance.

Irving Materials, Inc.

On a mission to reduce the carbon footprint of its concrete, Irving Materials, Inc. (imi) added CarbonCure to 60 plants while growing its business. This case study describes their journey.

Secrets to Boosting Your Concrete’s Profitability

This eBook touches on methods for reducing production costs and the carbon footprint of concrete, ways to create process efficiencies and retain employees, and how sustainability positioning serves as a competitive advantage that helps gain market share.

CarbonCure’s Impact on the GWP of Concrete

Concrete made with CarbonCure reduces the carbon impact (GWP) of concrete by 4-6% and may be used in addition to other carbon-reducing strategies.

Introduction to CarbonCure for Ready Mix Producers

A breakdown of how CarbonCure's technology works, and the value it brings to concrete producers and the construction industry.

CarbonCure Ready Mix Specification Language

Recommended specification language for incorporating concrete that has undergone in-situ carbon dioxide (CO₂) mineralization using CarbonCure's technology into ready mix concrete specifications and/or procurement policies.

Specification Considerations for Engineers

Structural engineers play a vital role in reducing embodied CO₂ by adopting concrete specification best practices, which are contained in this brochure.

CarbonCure’s Contribution to LEED Credits

The breakdown on how CarbonCure contributes to the ability to earn points toward the LEED v4.1 Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction and Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Environmental Product Declarations credits.

Calculating Sustainability Impacts of CarbonCure Ready Mix

This paper shows how the injected CO₂ improved the concrete’s compressive strength with minimal impact on fresh air content or workability. It includes three-way comparisons between a reference batch, reduced binder batch and reduced binder batch with CO₂ addition, confirmed that the CO₂ could allow for a 5-8% reduction in binder loading without compromising strength. A model case shows that integrating a CO₂ utilization step into conventional concrete production can, net of process emissions, reduce the carbon footprint of the concrete by 4.6%.

CarbonCure Ready Mix Technology Case Studies

This paper examines data provided by a ready mix producer partner who installed the CarbonCure Technology and used the system to produce concrete with an optimized dosage of CO₂. 45,000 cubic yards of concrete were produced over an 8 month period using a 5% binder reduction in conjunction with an optimized dose of CO₂. The estimated cement savings exceeded 450 tonnes and more than 400 tonnes of CO₂ emissions were avoided. The use of the technology did not impact the producer’s cycle time; all operations continued as normal throughout this assessment.

CarbonCure Durability Assessment Report

This technical note reviews the conclusion that concrete treated with CO₂ had fresh state properties consistent with the desired performance. The required workability and air content was achieved. The surface resistivity, bulk resistivity and RCPT indicated that the two batches had comparable permeability. Corrosion measurements indicated corrosion had not started in either sample and pore solution pH was unaltered by the CO₂ treatment. Flexural strength increased 6%.