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August 29 2021 Vol. XXII • No. 18
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Inside
MB America’s CEO Climbs Cor porate Ladder...14
Story on page 52 Six Small Ways To Make Big Jobsite Impact...18
Vantage Auct ions Retur ns to In-Per son Sale...68
Dan Williams Company was tasked with building two new bridges on I-35/Ronald Reagan Boulevard to improve mobility, safety and connectivity in Texas Previously, only bridge existed.
Table of Contents ............4
Going Green On the Job Site
Paving Section ..........23-37
Best Practices for a Sustainable Construction Operation
Underground Utility, Trenchers, Trench Boxes & Utilities Section ........53-57
By Lucy Perry
Auction Section ........66-69 Business Calendar ........67 Advertisers Index ..........70
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Embodied carbon is the sum impact of all greenhouse gas emissions of a material throughout its life. Concrete uses the highest amount of embodied carbon, followed by steel, then ceramics. Replacing concrete with a material such as fly ash can cut down on embodied carbon on a job site.
The coronavirus pandemic has changed a lot about how the construction industry operates these days. It’s driven crew members further apart from one another. It’s also clogged the flow and hiked the prices of construction materials. But, it’s propelled sustainability to a place of higher priority on job sites. The timing couldn’t have been better.
“In the midst of the global pandemic and economic crisis, there was also a notable shift toward reversing decades of damage and a renewed focus on addressing climate change,” said Bob Lester, president and CEO of DuraSeal. He believes it has put builders under a microscope for sustainability practices. They’ll now have to prove to customers and investors that they take the future of our planet into considersee SUSTAINABILITY page 38
