With growing concerns over climate change and the increasing scarcity of natural resources, the reduction of the environmental impact on construction activities generated new set of commitments.
The European Union commits to carbon neutrality
At the end of 2019, the European Union agreed on a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. The Green Deal has then been launched. Within this international scope, local initiatives, such as RE 2020 in France, announce the changes to come.
To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, France is focusing on the construction industry, which accounts for 25% of CO2 emissions.
The entire actors is being structured to develop low-carbon solutions, with the definition of the National Low Carbon Strategy (SNBC).
The new environmental regulation, the RE2020 (in force on January 1, 2022) integrates the carbon dimension of each construction through a life cycle analysis. Chryso technical experts support you in this analysis and facilitate the development of innovative materials, through the optimization of concrete formulations.
Driven by the environmental and economic challenges of sustainable construction, industry players are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of construction by 35% by 2030 to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
This objective accelerates the use of ecological, recyclable or bio sourced materials.
However, it is possible to go even further in reducing the carbon impact by acting directly on the formulation of concrete.
EnviroMix® is a unique global offer combining fully dedicated low-carbon concrete admixtures and services enabling the calculation and reduction of the CO2 impact. This solution is aimed at both the ready-mix and precast industries.
Chryso’s commitment: to be a facilitator of ecological and sustainable construction.
Based on the latest Chryso innovations, the new EnviroMix® range integrates specific polymers and catalyzers, for an optimum reduction of the carbon footprint in concrete, while ensuring a high level of performance:
By acting on the CO2 impact, new parameters are to be integrated for the elaboration of the mix-design, in addition to the traditional properties of this material at the heart of our construction methods (resistance and durability classes, workability maintenance, setting time…).
To meet your target performance level, Chryso has developed the EnviroMix® range which provides an answer for each type of application:
Types of application:
Applications:
Enviromix®Impact is a pre-diagnosis tool calculator, it allows to:
CHRYSO®Maturix is a temperature digital monitoring tool in real time.
It allows you to efficiently monitor and predict the increase in compressive strength at all ages in precast plants as well as on jobsite.
The data generated enables the optimization of productivity and mix-design.
Chryso experts are developing a specific EnviroMix®C-Clay range of innovative admixtures designed to enhance the performance and versatility of calcined clay cements used in ready-mix concretes.
Find out more about Enviromix®C-Clay
Chryso’s technical experts will assist you in the formulation of your concrete mix design and on your construction sites, to elaborate a concrete perfectly adapted to your performance objectives.
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Over the past 15 years, Chryso has engaged in a strong R&D dynamic in low-carbon concrete admixtures. This dynamism has enabled us to access new performance levers and create new low-carbon concrete solutions. Chryso has developed a range of admixtures based on the use of concrete additives, for example:
Chryso also benefits from specific know-how adapted to the chemistry of new low carbon cements through its cement additives activity.
The new cements with additives (CEM II to CEM VI and LC3) or the binders of tomorrow made of new geopolymers, which arrive on the market, will require new admixtures supported by advanced technologies.
Chryso solutions that combine high performance levels with a reduced carbon footprint have been implemented in the USA since 2010.
The future Block 162 office tower located in downtown Denver will total 55 000 m2. This high-rise building is designed at 30 stories.
Parking will be on floors 2 through 10 (9 floors of podium parking), as well as three below-ground levels.
“Le Onze” residence in Chartres (France) is a 12 housing units, built both in accordance with an environmental new label approach (Positive energy building label with a low carbon footprint), and in favor of circular economy, with the objective to maintain balanced construction costs.
To learn more about the EnviroMix® offer, contact us.
