Taylor Woodrow, a leading player in the delivery of complex UK infrastructure projects, have been celebrating their success at the recent Constructing Excellence SECBE Awards 2022 (recognising the very best of the construction & built environment industry from across London & the South East). Their Eco Park Project won the Innovation Award for the use of Ultra Low Carbon Concrete – known as Exegy®. The judges said it was a unanimous decision, and they were impressed by the extraordinary technical challenges that had been overcome.

Early this year Ecocem, a leading provider of low carbon solutions for the cement and construction industries, and Taylor Woodrow, conducted their first pour of Exegy® ultra-low carbon concrete in the UK.

Exegy® and Ecocem rely on a network of partner plants. Thanks to the CEMEX team from the National Technical Centre for completing the Exegy® trials beforehand, and to the CEMEX team at the Canning Town Concrete plant in Greater London who produced the Exegy® Ultra-Low Carbon concrete for the award winning pour.

Commenting at the time of the pour Steve Crompton, Director of Quality and Product Technology for Materials West Europe, CEMEX, said: “CEMEX is committed to reducing the embodied carbon in our range of cementitious products and we have ambitious targets to lower CO2 levels in concrete, including a global commitment to produce net-zero concrete for all our customers by 2050.

We have been working with VINCI and Ecocem in France to investigate how alternative cement technologies can accelerate the reduction in CO2 in readymix concrete and are delighted to be involved with the project at Edmonton EcoPark to demonstrate how this new technology can contribute to ultra-low carbon emissions in concrete.”