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💦 The Kidston Pumped Hydro Energy Project in Queensland, Australia is helping the region transition to renewables. ♻ Holcim is helping build it in the most circular way possible, with 100% recycled aggregates in all supplied concrete. ⛵ As Team Holcim-PRB skipper Nicolas Lunven sails the globe in the Vendée Globe race while flying the #GOCIRCULAR flag high, he’s unlocking our sustainability stories around the world as he passes them on the map! 🔗 Check out the map to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eg355zrQ #GOCIRCULARbyHolcim #VG2024

🗨 “For the Riviera Tower raft foundation we achieved the largest ‘one shot’ concrete pour in the history of Greece. This major logistical challenge required extremely precise coordination, and marked an outstanding collaboration with our customer.” Vassilis Iakovou, Head of Concrete Line, Holcim Greece. 🌍 #BuildersOfProgress like Vassilis and projects like The Ellinikon showcase what inspires us as we make construction more circular, resilient, low-carbon, energy-efficient and smart. 🔗 Find out more about this Building Icon: https://lnkd.in/eAuqayMK #BuildingProgress #BuildingIcons #SustainableConstruction #Architecture HERACLES Group, a member of Holcim

👩🔬 Innovation plays a key role in reinventing how the world builds and we’re pushing the boundaries in our sector. 🌍 In 2024, we partnered with several startups that have the cutting-edge clean technology to help us drive sustainable building at scale. 🔗 Find out about their disruptive innovations here:  https://lnkd.in/eW_At7ct #SustainableConstruction #Innovation #BuildingProgress

🤝 Our partnership with neustark is expanding to new markets, as we work with the Swiss startup to bring their game-changing CO2 mineralization technology to France! 🌳 Part of the Holcim MAQER Ventures portfolio, neustark has developed a technology that permanently binds CO2 in recycled concrete. 👷♀️ A new production line for crushing and screening demolition concrete is being installed in Gennevilliers, where this technology will be deployed. 🏛️ Once re-carbonated, the recycled aggregate, which retains all its mechanical properties, will be used to make sustainable building solutions. 🔗 Read more about our partnership with neustark here: https://lnkd.in/eCw74X2T #BuildingProgress #Innovation #CircularConstruction

🌊 "We should call it Planet Ocean, not Planet Earth." 🔬 Richard Brisius, Race Chairman of The Ocean Race, emphasizes the importance of collecting scientific data while sailing around the globe. ⛵ Right now, our Team Holcim-PRB skipper Nicolas Lunven is racing in the Vendée Globe with an Ocean Pack onboard as part of the #GOCIRCULAR campaign, gathering crucial samples on temperature, salinity, oxygen, and CO2 in some of the most remote areas of our planet. In collaboration with The Ocean Race, we're sharing this data with scientific institutions to help monitor the health of our oceans. 🔗 Last year, we collected microplastic samples during The Ocean Race - here are the results: https://lnkd.in/diZWD-qp #GOCIRCULARbyHolcim #BuildingProgress #Sustainability #OceanScience #OceanRace #MarineResearch

🌱 Holcim is partnering with Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena and his architectural practice Elemental to launch a sustainable and resilient housing project with a carbon-neutral footprint during the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture. 🏘️ The collaboration will combine Elemental’s experience in resilient and affordable housing with Holcim’s advanced sustainable concrete solutions, building on ECOPact. 📆 The project will be showcased from May 6 to November 23, 2025 as part of the Time Space Existence exhibition, organized by the European Cultural Centre in Venice. 🔗 Learn more about this exciting partnership here: https://lnkd.in/e99tC4M5 #BuildingProgress #BuildingCities #SustainableConstruction #VeniceBiennale

Are you an architect, urban planner or engineer with a standout sustainable construction project you’re passionate about? Then enter the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 - to set sustainability benchmarks, share a USD 1 million prize pot and gain global recognition. With the 2025 awards cycle now open, we sat down with Laura Viscovich, Executive Director of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, to discuss the awards and the foundation’s wider work. 🔗 Meet Laura and find out how to enter the awards: https://lnkd.in/eJAgsUtB #SustainableConstruction #BuildingProgress #SustainableArchitecture #Architecture #HFAwards2025

Eugenia Ceballos Hunziker, our Group Head of Sustainable Procurement and Impact Valuation, talks about supplier transformation as part of WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development's 'Everyday Echoes' series. Having led several initiatives to embed sustainability into Holcim’s procurement practices, she has created a ripple effect across operations, building long-term relationships with suppliers who increasingly view sustainability as essential to their business practices. #BuildingProgress #Sustainability

We’re delighted to be announced as a founding member of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Chief Resilience Officers network, launched in November 2024.   Holcim is proud to be part of this initiative, and as its first rotating chair, will proactively support the network in its goal to support the wider work of the UNDRR in reducing the impact of disasters – from early warnings to effective response and recovery. “This network provides a unique platform for Holcim, and other organizations who share our vision, to develop societal resilience. Holcim’s  business resilience program is built on the idea that the net resilience of an organization is the product of the resilience of its people,” Cedrick Moriggi, Chief Resilience Officer, Holcim.  “I’m delighted that this group of trusted organizations has come together to make a difference. We aim to share not just this approach, but to make practical tools and techniques to improve resilience freely available to organizations of all sizes across the world,” Richard FitzHugh, Head of Business Resilience, Holcim. Read the UNDRR media release in full here: https://lnkd.in/eE75bbuj

🏛️ The Grand Egyptian Museum is not just the largest archaeological museum in the world, it’s an architectural marvel where history meets sustainability. 🌱 Built using Holcim's sustainable products, it is Africa's first building to achieve the IFC EDGE Green Building Certification. ⛵ As Team Holcim-PRB skipper Nicolas Lunven sails the globe in the Vendée Globe race while flying the #GOCIRCULAR flag high, he’s unlocking our sustainability stories around the world as he passes them on the map! 🔗 Check out the map to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eepA2KaG #GOCIRCULARbyHolcim #VG2024