Building Resilience Coalition

Great article on Avoiding Disasters - Outlines that the most effective way to handle disasters is to plan to avoid catastrophic failures before they happen.

Achieving Resilience and Climate Targets: Update of Cement and Concrete Pathway to Carbon Neutrality Free Webinar Tuesday, May 28, 2024 9:00-10:15 AM PDT As governments move toward rebuilding resilient infrastructure and economies, we must ensure that those plans shape our current and future economies in clean, green, safe, and resilient ways. With consideration of state and federal “Buy Clean” legislation, building material manufacturers must adapt to stricter greenhouse gas emission regulations. The environmental impact of those materials during manufacture, in the use phase, the end-of-life phase, and beyond (LIFE-CYCLE) will play an essential role in attaining our GHG goals in the future. Cement and concrete provide resilience to the effects of climate change and resultant disasters while reducing CO2 emissions and attaining GHG reduction targets. Reducing GHG is an opportunity for a profound paradigm shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both the planet and its inhabitants. As the most widely used material on earth, after water, concrete is fundamental to the world around us. Cement and concrete products will play a vital role in addressing the effects of climate change. Constructing and operating our built environment is a significant part of our economy, resource consumption, and environmental impact. How will future ecological considerations and construction practices affect what and how we build? What are the cement and concrete industries doing to reduce CO2 and GHG emissions to address climate change? In a changing world, the circular economy, the biodiversity crisis, and the carbon challenge all impact the answer. Speakers: - Dr. Andrew Minson, Concrete and Sustainable Construction Director, Global Cement and Concrete Association - Rick Bohan, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Portland Cement Association - Adam Auer, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada REGISTER HERE: https://bityl.co/Pp8b

People in those two neighbourhoods, as well as residents of two others around Fort Mac, had to scramble for go-bags and flee, as a wildfire pressed toward the community. Abasand and Beacon Hill were badly hit in 2016 when a catastrophic fire that year destroyed 2,400 homes in Fort Mac and forced more than 80,000 to flee. The disaster was one of the most expensive in Canadian history. https://bityl.co/Pufp

Achieving Resilience and Climate Targets: Update of Cement and Concrete Pathway to Carbon Neutrality Free Webinar Tuesday, May 28, 2024 9:00-10:15 AM PDT As governments move toward rebuilding resilient infrastructure and economies, we must ensure that those plans shape our current and future economies in clean, green, safe, and resilient ways. With consideration of state and federal “Buy Clean” legislation, building material manufacturers must adapt to stricter greenhouse gas emission regulations. The environmental impact of those materials during manufacture, in the use phase, the end-of-life phase, and beyond (LIFE-CYCLE) will play an essential role in attaining our GHG goals in the future. Cement and concrete provide resilience to the effects of climate change and resultant disasters while reducing CO2 emissions and attaining GHG reduction targets. Reducing GHG is an opportunity for a profound paradigm shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both the planet and its inhabitants. As the most widely used material on earth, after water, concrete is fundamental to the world around us. Cement and concrete products will play a vital role in addressing the effects of climate change. Constructing and operating our built environment is a significant part of our economy, resource consumption, and environmental impact. How will future ecological considerations and construction practices affect what and how we build? What are the cement and concrete industries doing to reduce CO2 and GHG emissions to address climate change? In a changing world, the circular economy, the biodiversity crisis, and the carbon challenge all impact the answer. Speakers: - Dr. Andrew Minson, Concrete and Sustainable Construction Director, Global Cement and Concrete Association - Rick Bohan, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Portland Cement Association - Adam Auer, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada REGISTER HERE: https://bityl.co/Pp8b

The Florida Department of Transportation approved ready mixed concrete with an Argos USA Type IL cement for the pier and other cast-in-place structures on the Bayway Bridge (above) and a companion Gateway Expressway structure (below), both part of the four-lane S.R. 690 toll road underway in Pinellas County. https://bityl.co/Pu1Q

Thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes in Fort McMurray on Tuesday afternoon as a wildfire in northern Alberta pressed toward the community, reigniting memories of the 2016 blaze that forced the entire city to flee and flattened some neighbourhoods. https://bityl.co/Ptwd

Hope you will join us on this excellent webinar and hear how the cement industry is working towards achieving carbon neutrality from the Global and North American perspectives. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e-6SscQc

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Achieving Resilience and Climate Targets: Update of Cement and Concrete Pathway to Carbon Neutrality Free Webinar Tuesday, May 28, 2024 9:00-10:15 AM PDT As governments move toward rebuilding resilient infrastructure and economies, we must ensure that those plans shape our current and future economies in clean, green, safe, and resilient ways. With consideration of state and federal “Buy Clean” legislation, building material manufacturers must adapt to stricter greenhouse gas emission regulations. The environmental impact of those materials during manufacture, in the use phase, the end-of-life phase, and beyond (LIFE-CYCLE) will play an essential role in attaining our GHG goals in the future. Cement and concrete provide resilience to the effects of climate change and resultant disasters while reducing CO2 emissions and attaining GHG reduction targets. Reducing GHG is an opportunity for a profound paradigm shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both the planet and its inhabitants. As the most widely used material on earth, after water, concrete is fundamental to the world around us. Cement and concrete products will play a vital role in addressing the effects of climate change. Constructing and operating our built environment is a significant part of our economy, resource consumption, and environmental impact. How will future ecological considerations and construction practices affect what and how we build? What are the cement and concrete industries doing to reduce CO2 and GHG emissions to address climate change? In a changing world, the circular economy, the biodiversity crisis, and the carbon challenge all impact the answer. Speakers: - Dr. Andrew Minson, Concrete and Sustainable Construction Director, Global Cement and Concrete Association - Rick Bohan, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Portland Cement Association - Adam Auer, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada REGISTER HERE: https://bityl.co/Pp8b