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Earth Friendly Concrete
Using research funding from the Environment Agency, Jackson Civils conducted trials in collaboration with our concrete technical team, using a product called Earth Friendly Concrete which is Portland cement free. Instead it uses a geopolymer binder system made from the chemical activation of two industrial waste by-products – blast furnace slag and fly ash.
This typically offers a 70% saving in embodied carbon compared to standard concrete mixes and helps to reduce the carbon footprint associated with concrete use in construction projects.
More than half of the Environment Agency’s carbon currently comes from the construction of flood defences, canals and waterway schemes, which is the driver for using lower carbon cements in construction.
