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Green-Star,
Recognizing Environmental Excellence:
What
does Green-Star mean? The program centers on concrete-specific environmental management systems, enabling producers to implement and monitor stronger pollution control and waste reduction measures. The NRMCA Operations, Environment and Safety Committee’s Environmental Task Group has implemented Green-Star in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Carroll Concrete is 1 of 3 plants, Green-Star certified in NH
- Carroll Concrete is the only plant certified in Vermont.
- There are only 161 Concrete plants certified world wide.
Why
Concrete?
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When one thinks of the future of architecture and design, one is inclined to think about environmentally sustainable woods such as bamboo or recycled building materials. Concrete—a substance as old as the Roman Empire—is hardly the first thing that comes to mind in envisioning the future of the developed world. And yet it is concrete, that ancient, lowly material, that is in fact making waves in future-forward circles.
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As the one building material that is always produced in proximity to its use in buildings and infrastructure, ready mixed concrete greatly reduces the environmental impact of material transport by minimizing fuel requirements, energy consumption and emissions for transportation and handling. In addition, as a made to-order material, concrete construction results in less building waste......
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