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Major construction firm unveils 鈥榗limate-improved鈥� concrete piles
31 October 2024
With climate neutrality deadlines looming in the decades to come, Sweden-based construction and civil engineering company Peab announced it has developed a new 鈥渃limate-improved鈥� solution for concrete pile making.
Peab鈥檚 new 鈥榗limate-improved鈥� concrete piles are placed by a piling machine. (Image: Peab)
Noting its internal expectation to reach operational climate neutrality by 2045, Peab said its latest range of ECO-Piles will be manufactured in three different variants for carbon emission savings.
鈥淟evel 1 are at least 10% [carbon emissions savings] compared to conventional concrete, between 22% and 29% in level 2 and 34% in level 3,鈥� said Peab, noting the figures were achieved by reducing the amount of cement in the product.
Anneli Lindgren, construction manager for manufacturing at Peab Grundl盲ggning, added, 鈥淚n our new ECO-Piles, we have both reduced the proportion of steel and replaced some of the cement with Merit, a climate-efficient binder made from recovered blast furnace slag, which all in all provides a substantial improvement in climate efficiency.鈥�
Noting piles鈥� heavy usage in road, railway, and residential projects, the company added that, 鈥渟ince more than every second pile metre installed in Sweden is made of concrete, large amounts of cement, the binder that is responsible for up to 90% of concrete鈥檚 CO鈧� footprint, is used.
鈥淚n Sweden more than one million pile-metres of concrete are produced annually, of which about one quarter is manufactured by Peab Grundl盲ggning鈥檚 three factories in Sj枚vik, Tollarp and V盲ster氓s.鈥�
Peab Grundl盲ggning CEO Patrick Andersson said customers can expect the new product to be available in summer of 2025 at the earliest.
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