Holcim's green building solutions behind a ‘living laboratory’ of sustainable building

Grupo DAGS, one of Monterrey’s main developers, needed a sustainable solution to build the multi-use Moranta Tower. ECOPact concrete met the challenge.

Croatia's Istrian Y Motorway project is saving around 9,000 tons of CO₂ emissions through the use of Holcim’s low-carbon concrete.

Holcim is providing ECOPact low-carbon concrete for the largest urban regeneration project in Europe: the Ellinikon, located outside of Athens, Greece.

Holcim and Amazon Web Services are working together to make data centers in the US more sustainable by using low-carbon ECOPact concrete.

Zephyr Ost in the Tech Cluster Zug is the largest construction project in Switzerland to date with climate-friendly concrete.

GP Vivienda, one of Mexico’s biggest real estate developers and construction companies, used 50,000 m3 of ECOPact green concrete to build twelve residential developments across Monterrey metropolitan area.

ECOPact green concrete was used to build a state-of-the-art media library in Herblay-sur-Seine to achieve a CO₂ emissions reduction of 50%.

ECOPact green concrete was used to build a modern energy-from-waste facility (EfW) outside of London, reducing CO₂ emissions by 42%.

BPM Architects and Bouygues Bâtiment Center Sud-Ouest construction group used ECOPact green concrete to build a modern middle school for the town of Le Pian-Médoc.

Sabowind, a full-service supplier and operator of wind energy, used ECOPact green concrete to build a new wind farm in Markowice.

Real estate developer SEGRO used ECOPact green concrete to revitalize a former coal mining area in Germany by building a new logistics park on the site. The project delivered 825 tons of CO₂ savings, or a reduction of 33% compared to the German industry reference.

Casa Laguna, the largest affordable housing project in Ecuador to date, used ECOPact green concrete for a 3,500 unit housing development. In total, ECOPact enabled 60% less CO₂ emissions compared to conventional concrete.

For this demanding project, HRS Real Estate AG relied on a product innovation from Holcim Switzerland that closes the material cycle: the resource-saving and low CO₂ concrete ECOPact+.

At Holcim our researchers are constantly innovating to make sustainable construction possible at scale. Our ‘Houses of Tomorrow’ project is translating that work into real world solutions, with five housing projects in five different countries.

As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, our products play an essential role in the development of greener buildings and more liveable cities. For example our green concrete range ECOPact offers 30% to 100% lower carbon compared to standard (CEM I) concrete.

Sustainable construction is essential to building a net-zero future that works for people and the planet – and our green building solutions are bringing this reality to life in cities around the world.

In Glasgow, a new public artwork about a greener future is realized with Holcim’s sustainable concrete, reducing the carbon footprint by more than 70%.

Gioia 22 is the newest entry in Milan’s skyline. The tower is finally preparing for its new life, replacing an old building built in 1961 and abandoned from 2012. 

On 5 December 2020, Holcim operated the largest pour of EcoPact - the industry’s broadest range of green concrete, delivering high-performing, sustainable and circular benefits.

Introducing ECOPact, the industry’s broadest range of green concrete, delivering high-performing, sustainable and circular benefits.

We’re helping our customers build greener than ever before and we are accelerating our efforts with innovative green and circular solutions, such as: ECOPact, our green concrete, enabling carbon neutral construction, or Susteno, the world’s first cement with 20% repurposed Construction and demolition waste inside.