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🚗💨 We’re accelerating the shift to electric vehicles – and cutting CO₂ emissions by up to 50% at the same time. EVs are a key solution to greener mobility, as they: - cost up to 52% less to operate than diesel-powered vehicles 📉 - are 40% cheaper to repair 🔧 A key innovation as we look to #buildprogress for people and planet! 🌎 #BuildingProgress #ElectricVehicles #GreenMobility #Innovation

Advanced crushing is breaking down barriers and paving the way for more #CircularConstruction. ♻️ Europe’s first advanced crushing plant in Saint-Laurent-de-Mure recycles all of the materials from demolition concrete to make additives for the manufacture of new cements. 🏭 This site serves as a pilot for the roll-out of this new approach from 2024. 🚀 Read more at: https://ow.ly/OVNw50Svr4M #Circularity #BuildingProgress

What value do our acquisitions bring to our full range of roofing system applications? 👀 From unique technologies to leadership in green roofing systems, here’s a look at some of the recent ones. 👇 #Decarbonization #Roofing #BuildingProgress

🇨🇭 Reduce, reuse and recycle – that’s the motto of the Grüze Innovation Laboratory in Winterthur, Switzerland, built with our award-winning carbon prestressed concrete (CPC) technology 🌍 The modular, expandable, filigree building made of extra-thin and recyclable CPC concrete slabs is a field of experimentation and a place for discussions about urban planning and climate change 🔗 Find out how we’re building better with less and promoting the sharing economy with this innovative project: https://ow.ly/EtEU50StAIY #Innovation #SustainableConstruction #BuildingProgress

❓ Did you know about our Plants of Tomorrow program to modernize our plants? 💻 Using digital solutions – from advanced drones to smart control systems and generative AI – Holcim is creating connected, smart and energy-efficient sites that advance our decarbonization journey. 🔗 Here are some of the program’s recent highlights: https://ow.ly/ciqN50SsK0n #Innovation #Decarbonization #Digitalization #AI #BuildingProgress

🗨 “#GOCIRCULAR demonstrates that we want to be part of sustainable solutions, and our building systems contribute to energy-efficient design.” ♻️ Frank Palmer, Vice President of Sales at Holcim Elevate U.S., explains what the campaign means for our business. 🔗 Find out more about the #circulareconomy at Holcim: https://ow.ly/3HXU50SrG6n #CircularConstruction #GOCIRCULARbyHolcim

🤝 Partnering with organizations that share our goal of building more affordable and resilient housing, we collaborate to scale up impact. 🍁 The most recent example is the completion of the Kingston Homes for Heroes project in Canada. 🏡 The project provides a caring, innovative, and comprehensive solution for homeless veterans by building unique, affordable urban villages in cities across Canada to help them get back on their feet. 🏗 As a project partner to the Homes For Heroes Foundation, Holcim is donating decorative Artevia concrete as well as other aggregates and concretes to build these communities in Canada. It has been an honor to see this project from ground-breaking to completion, and we hope that it serves the veteran community for many years to come. 🔗 Find out more about this project and others that we have to help our communities thrive: https://ow.ly/EKHK50SqYeJ #SustainableConstruction #BuildingProgress #SustainableBuilding #AffordableHousing

♻️ Holcim has invested in Travertine to apply the startup’s proprietary circular technology to the decarbonization of cement. 🏭 By binding CO2 from direct air capture into advanced mineral components, Travertine’s technology permanently sequesters carbon. 🏗️ Holcim’s investment, through its corporate venture capital and open innovation unit Holcim MAQER Ventures, will support the scaling of this technology to decarbonize cement. 🔗 Read more about this exciting news here: https://lnkd.in/gGucYamA #BuildingProgress #DecarbonizingBuilding

🗨 “Sustainability is a leadership challenge – we have to show the way.” 🌍 At this year’s #AustrianWorldSummit, our Chief Sustainability Officer Nollaig Forrest highlighted the importance of making sustainable living easy for everyone, as well as the tools cities and regions have to build climate-friendly structures. ♻ With a growing population and rapid urbanization, we need to accelerate sustainable building and living. At Holcim, we’re providing low-carbon building solutions worldwide. Our low-carbon concrete and cement ranges ECOPact and ECOPlanet both deliver 100% performance with 30% less CO2, and we’re accelerating circularity to build new from old with recycled materials. 📽 Watch the video to see the highlights of Holcim at the Austrian World Summit 2024! 🔗 And find out more about how we decarbonize building end-to-end: https://ow.ly/Qx2650SnbxZ #AWSExpo24 #ClimateAction #BuildingProgress #DecarbonizingBuilding