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To reduce energy consumption, carbon emissions, and operation costs, ACI has incorporated energy efficient technologies at ACI World Headquarters in Farmington Hills, MI, USA. These technologies include updating all lighting to LED lighting and installing 300 solar panels on the roof of the building.

The Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race is a competition among engineering students from colleges and universities across Canada and the United States. In 2017, the Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, team won the overall championship as well as the award for Most Sustainable Toboggan with the self-consolidating magnesium silicate concrete racing toboggan.

Concrete for a large light-rail infrastructure project in the Northwest region of the United States was proposed to be switched from using ordinary portland cement to portland limestone cement (PLC). The article presents research performed to verify that the design requirement of a 100-year service life for the structure can be obtained with PLC concretes containing Class F fly ash.