In December CarbonCure announced one million truckloads of ready-mix concrete made with CarbonCure technology had been delivered in the United States and abroad.
Before Lauren Concrete brought the technology to the Austin market at the beginning of 2020, CarbonCure had been widely used by ready-mix suppliers across the country.
“More and more customers are looking for green building options,” said Matt Jetmore, Central General Manager at Lauren Concrete. “Lauren is excited to be able to help provide solutions. I anticipate we’ll continue to roll out CarbonCure more widely in the new year.”
CarbonCure batching system at the Lauren Concrete plant in Round Rock, Texas.
Lauren Concrete had the privilege of delivering the millionth truckload of concrete made with CarbonCure to a job here in Austin for the well-known and beloved Texas grocery store chain – H-E-B. Lauren Concrete is providing close to 25,000 yds of concrete for the new multi-level store location at Lake Austin, set to open in early 2022, and is using concrete made with CarbonCure when feasible.
Since the beginning of the year, CarbonCure technology gained traction in Austin with interested parties in the contracting, engineering, and architecture communities looking for solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment, all the way down to the concrete that is placed.
“The technology is installed in about three hundred plants on three continents,” said Rob Niven, CEO & Founder of CarbonCure in a recent podcast – My Climate Journey. “We’ve just closed a major investment round and are just pulling up right now for even more rapid growth.”
CarbonCure Technology injects a precise dosage of recycled carbon dioxide into fresh concrete where it transforms into a mineral and is trapped in the concrete forever. Concrete made with CarbonCure looks and performs the same, if not better, than your standard mix. But what’s inside of it has massive implications for the transformation of the built environment and Global Warming Potential (GWP) as we know it.
So far CarbonCure, in partnership with concrete producers worldwide, have achieved substantial CO₂ savings. In order to continue to make progress, Niven discusses how antiquated practices in the industry need to be replaced.
“…We need to remove regulatory barriers for innovation to happen. And what I mean by that is we need performance-based standards,” Niven said. “So much concrete right now is purchased according to very prescriptive, mixed designs or recipes that were put together 50 years ago that are way too conservative, and they block any kind of innovation to occur.”
Lauren Concrete is proud to have had a hand in bringing about real change and will continue to help contractors and builders unlock their projects’ potential with the option for sustainable concrete in Austin, TX.
Ask us about using one of our CarbonCure mixes on your next project.
