What happens when carbon becomes a significant part of material cost? We look at SEB’s latest carbon-price scenarios and what they could mean for cement, construction costs, margins and industrial competitiveness.
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How do we develop lower-carbon concrete faster, while maintaining performance, quality, and cost? It’s one of the construction industry’s biggest challenges, and one that increasingly requires a different approach than traditional trial-and-error mix design. At this year’s fib Congress in Lisbon, one of the world’s leading conferences for concrete engineering and structural design, Ecometrix and
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Svensk Betong represents the Swedish concrete industry and plays an important role in providing reliable market insights and industry statistics. The Svensk Betong case shows how secure digital infrastructure and structured analytics can turn distributed industry information into meaningful market intelligence through a transparent, secure, and accessible platform.
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When discussing sustainable construction, procurement often takes center stage. The focus is usually on selecting low-carbon materials, evaluating suppliers, and reducing emissions through purchasing decisions. But what if the biggest opportunity to reduce a building’s climate impact comes long before procurement begins? In this episode of Concrete Action Towards Net Zero, Anders Enebjörk (profile link),
Now that the data is cleaned and ready, it is easy to assume the hard part is done. The model will perform well, predictions will be accurate, and value will naturally follow. That assumption is where many projects fall short. You feed the data, train the model, and generate predictions, but a prediction on its
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Every cubic meter of concrete counts. At Swerock, part of the PEAB Group in Sweden, reducing CO₂ emissions is not a bold announcement, it is a series of small, deliberate steps. Staffan Carlström, Product Developer at Swerock, explains how testing, learning, and scaling eco-concrete has enabled measurable progress project by project and dataset by dataset.
AI Is Everywhere—Including Concrete AI adoption is spreading across traditionally conservative industries, and the concrete sector is no longer an exception. From mix design and performance prediction to cost and material optimization, AI-based tools are increasingly being part of everyday engineering workflows. At the same time, sustainability has become a defining challenge for the sector.
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In real estate, sustainability efforts traditionally focus on operational energy because it impacts operating costs and potentially rent levels. Until recently, few expected embodied carbon, the emissions from construction, to enter the conversation. Yet early signals suggest that it may soon become an important factor. This trend has begun in markets such as the Nordics,
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Real estate investors are reframing embodied carbon as a financial variable. In Episode 2 of Concrete Action Towards Net Zero: The Industry Dialogue, Slättö‘s Head of ESG and Communications, Annachiara Torciano, explains why carbon data is so important and ow investors see embodied carbon targets. Follow the Series This article is part of Concrete Action
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In sustainability, big goals make headlines – but real progress is made in the details. Every verified data point, design tweak, and local pilot has the power to move the construction industry toward a more sustainable future. At Ecometrix, we’ve seen this pattern repeatedly: True transformation doesn’t start with grand declarations.It begins with data clarity,
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