Environmental Benefits

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The manufacturing of cement generates about 0.85-0.90 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of cement. By comparison, the manufacturing of 1 tonne of EnviroPozz could be up to 90% less GHG emissions. So, substituting up to 20% EnviroPozz for cement will provide a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of cementitious material.

Using  EnviroPozz as a supplementary cementing material (SCM) in concrete production improves durability, so structures last longer and need fewer repairs ultimately reducing overall life cycle costs.

Whitemud Resources uses a unique, dry process to manufacture  EnviroPozz which protects our planets valuable water resources. Other processes typically use approximately three cubic metres of water per tonne of produced metakaolin.

Buildings made with  EnviroPozz are lighter in colour than those made with more traditional cementing materials, giving them increased albedo, or reflectivity. Lighter coloured buildings reflect light in the summer and require less energy for cooling.

LEED certification provides an independent, third party verification that a building, home or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at achieving high performance in key areas of human and environmental health: 

• location and transportation;
• sustainable site development;
• water savings;
• energy efficiency;
• materials selection; and
• indoor environmental quality.

There are a number of LEED rating systems available to meet the needs of different building and project types. Each LEED rating system consists of prerequisites and credits. Prerequisites are required elements, or green building strategies that must be included in any LEED certified project. Credits are optional elements, or strategies that projects can elect to pursue to gain points toward LEED certification. Certification levels include: 

• Certified;
• Silver;
• Gold; and 
• Platinum. 

In the construction industry, significant LEED points can be awarded through the supplementing of cement in concrete with greener alternatives. The use of Whitemud's EnviroPozz helps to generate these LEED points, proving beneficial to concrete producers and developers alike. 

As the industry moves towards greener solutions, EPDs are becoming and important measure on a products environmental impact. An EPD provides a comprehensive and transparent report that documents the way a product affects the environment throughout its lifecycle. The report includes environmental impact information such as ozone depletion, water pollution, smog and global warming potential (GWP). 

The overall benefit to an EPD is that it is an internationally recognized system and this allows producers, investors, consumers and other interested parties to identify products that will have a lower impact on the environment.

Using EnviroPozz in a cementitious design can reduce a product's GWP, and take you another step closer to producing net zero concretes and other cementitious products.