Efforts to reduce concrete carbon emissions grow

In recent decades, architects, developers and policymakers seeking to lower the carbon footprint of buildings have focused on reducing energy use by improving the efficiency of lighting, heating and other systems. To lower emissions even further, they are looking beyond such operational matters to the carbon emitted in the production and transportation of the materials that make up the structures, or so-called embodied carbon.Jane Margolies of The New York Times surveys advances in concrete decarbonization strategies, highlighting a set of concrete manufacturers that are using novel additives and different concrete recipes to save on carbon emissions.  Margolies takes a look at LafargeHolcim, Solidia Technologies, BioMason, Blue Planet, and CarbonCure Technologies, the latter of which is working to reduce concrete-related carbon emissions at the new  245,000-square-foot LinkedIn headquarters designed by STUDIOS Architecture in Mountain View, California by up to seven percent.