Following extensive customer feedback and internal product development, CCP Building Products has expanded the use of its Greenbloc technology.
CCP’s Greenbloc technology is now being used across its complete product portfolio. This means its range of concrete blocks and bricks provide the specifier maximum choice when it comes to carbon saving on a project.
In the true spirit of the SigmaRoc (CCP Building Products owner) 4 i’s model, CCP challenged itself to invest, improve, integrate and innovate its already well received ultra low carbon product offer. Beginning May 2023, the Greenbloc range will be available in three tiers of carbon saving with the launch of Greenbloc Standard, Premium and Ultra variants.
Manufactured to BSEN 771-3 and providing the same quality, compressive strength and durability as traditional concrete blocks, each variant of Greenbloc will provide increasing original Portland cement (OPC) substitution and therefore ever increasing benefit of lower embodied CO2 (‘CO2e’). As standard, customers have benefitted from the product, with 30% OPC substituted since the beginning of 2022 now increased to 50% at no extra cost to the customer. The Premium and Ultra variants will provide 80% and 100% OPC substitution respectively.
Greenbloc Ultra
Greenbloc Ultra is completely cement free and provides on average a net reduction in eCO2 of 77% per concrete block, resulting in the following specific decreases:
- an average reduction of 1.1kg of eCO2 per concrete block;
- an average reduction of 2.7 tonnes of eCO2 per average semi-detached house;
- these average reductions are equivalent to the CO2 emitted by an average household’s electricity consumption for four years.
Phil Rotheram, GM of CCP commented, “Our Greenbloc range and brand is the brainchild of our innovation and technical teams. It addresses a key challenge in the building products industry, the embodied CO2 in one of the most widely used building materials: the concrete block. The expansion of our Greenbloc range continues our commitment to sustainable alternatives to our product offering as we fully commit to the challenges of removing embodied carbon from the built environment.”
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