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CP Tech Center|Reduced-Carbon Concrete

Reduced-Carbon Concrete

Photograph of a concrete production plant showing a silo with three chutes feeding into bins, a loader, and piles of coarse and fine materialAs part of their sustainability efforts, transportation agencies across the nation are striving to quantify and reduce the carbon emissions resulting from the construction and maintenance of their concrete pavements.

The following collection of resources curated by the CP Tech Center covers developments in research and practice related to reduced- and low-carbon concrete.

Guides/Manuals
Guide for Reducing the Cradle-to-Gate Embodied Carbon Emissions of Paving Concrete (2024)
Sustainable Concrete Pavements: A Manual of Practice (2011)
MAP/Tech Briefs
What Can Be Done to Reduce the Embodied Carbon Emissions of Concrete?
PEM Evolution: Then and Now (2023)
Use of Harvested Fly Ash in Highway Infrastructure (2021)
Portland-Limestone Cement after 10 Years in the Field (2018)
Research Reports
Performance-Engineered Concrete Paving Mixtures (2022)
Spreadsheets
Mixture-Proportioning Spreadsheet (XLSX) (2021)
Technical Resources

Minnesota Department of Transportation
Development of Process to Lower GWP of Construction Materials

FHWA
Portland Limestone Cement TechNote (FHWA-HRT-23-104)

For more information

For more information about CP Tech Center work related to reduced-concrete, contact:

Leif Wathne

Associate Director, CP Tech Center

515-296-7032
lwathne@iastate.edu

Additional training by format

The CP Tech Center provides concrete pavement training promoting best practices (including with new tools/methodologies) as follows:

Request additional training

Want to schedule CP Tech Center training at your event or need additional training materials developed? Please contact:

Sharon Prochnow

Program Coordinator, cp tECH cENTER

515-294-3781
prochnow@iastate.edu

Improve training in your state

Since 2006, informal quarterly “Lunch & Learn” training has kept Iowa’s county and municipal engineers on top of best practices and new methods/tools in concrete pavements in now ten locations across Iowa every fall, winter, and spring. For help setting up similar training for your state, contact:

Peter Taylor

Director, CP Tech Center

515-294-9333
ptaylor@iastate.edu

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