As a follow up to our recent groundbreaking ceremony, our west coast team in conjunction with our McMinnville, Oregon based friends at Solid Carbon, and concrete supplier Knife River, who has nearby batch mixing facility located less than a mile from our campus, poured the concrete footers and slab for our new 20,000 square foot production facility – The NEWBeamery.
“Concrete is a necessary structural tool for most buildings, especially ones of this size and function, that is used to give a structure its ground connection and bearing on the site. The issue is the large carbon footprint standard concrete creates, not only to produce, but to transport to a jobsite,” Explained Oliver Ogden, our Assistant West Coast General Manager. “Anything we can do to offset that carbon footprint during the construction process is something our team really focuses on. Partnering with Solid Carbon, who use a bio-char filler to produce a carbon sequestering concrete, just makes a lot of sense to us for not only our production facility here in McMinnville, but also on a number of other projects we have worked on or will be working on in the near future.”
“Having access to Solid Carbon’s products, in conjunction with a mixing site a quarter of a mile down the road, significantly reduced the carbon footprint created by the NEWbeamery,” Oliver continued. “Thinking about our own buildings with as much care and thought to sustainability as we would building homes for our clients is really fundamental to what we do here at New Energy Works.”
“The pour was very successful, even though it got a little dicey with the weather on the first day of the two-day pour,” Oliver concluded. “It started raining when we were doing the final finishing work on the first section, but the crew stayed late to make it all work out, which was great. Next, we are looking forward to raising our glulam structural elements in the coming weeks.”
More about Solid Carbon:
Solid Carbon provides concrete admixtures for durable carbon sequestration in the built environment for industry-leading low-carbon concrete. We believe the capture and storage of carbon is as an essential pathway towards reducing the Global Warming Potential of concrete and transforming this strong and resilient material from a leading source of carbon emissions into a climate solution.
Learn more: Solid Carbon: Carbon Sequestering Concrete Admixture (solid-carbon.com)
