On September 25th and 26th a group of external stakeholders met with the Technical Committee of the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC). The two-day workshop was hosted by CSC founding member CRH at its Amsterdam office in the Netherlands.
September 26th Kiwa awarded Dutch concrete factory De Meteoor BV the CSC Gold certificate. Manager QHSE Klaas Huijgen reacts.
CSC has launched its Spanish language certification system at a congress in Colombia, organised by the Iberoamerican Federation of ready-mixed concrete (FIHP).
The CSC Manual version 1.0 has been translated to Spanish and Turkish.
The Iberoamerican Federation of Ready Mixed Concrete (Federación Iberoamericana del HormigónPremezclado, FIHP), headquartered in Bogota, Colombia, has become the official CSC Regional System Operator for South America.
CSC has been recognized as a responsible sourcing certification system applicable to the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM). BREEAM is the oldest and most widely used method of assessing, rating and certifying the sustainability of buildings.
Envision is a US infrastructure certification system developed by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), located in Washington DC.
On May 28 2018 Dutch based SGS Intron Certificatie has issued the first CSC certificate for the responsible origin of concrete in Spain.
DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council) managing director Johannes Kreissig announced on april 19th 2018 that the CSC certificates of Silver and Gold level will be recognized in the responsible sourcing credit of the DGNB 2018 version for sustainable construction.