Traitement des eaux de ruissellement
March 26, 2021 - EDMONTON, AB – Lafarge Canada’s Northern Alberta construction team is kicking off 2021 with road redesign and upgrades west of Edmonton, AB.
Highway 19 is a 12-kilometre, two-lane, high-volume, high-load corridor connecting Highway 60 and Highway 2. It is a critical piece of infrastructure that supports continued economic growth in the capital region. “This has been a long time coming,” says Przemyslaw Skiba, VPGM of Northern Alberta. “There was a lot of discussion and preplanning with the communities. Now that a consensus has been reached, we can have a huge impact on the safety of the motorists who use the road every day, and align with future plans for the Edmonton International Airport.”
Unlike other Western Canadian infrastructure contractors, Lafarge is uniquely positioned to provide all raw inputs into the project as well as manage the construction. The company will supply 375 m3 of ready mix concrete, 66,000 tonnes of asphalt and 300,000 tonnes of aggregates.
Says Skiba, “we provide a one stop shop. We pair our interchange experience with resource and cost certainty, and it helps to maximize the tax dollars at work.”
Alberta Transportation awarded the contract to Lafarge in early 2021, triggering the construction of 3.5 km of four new lanes of highway, two new traffic signals and illumination at the Highway 19 and Highway 60 intersections. It also includes 1.5 km of widening on Highway 60, and one bridge culvert extension and one bridge culvert rehab. “It will make a big difference to the people who live here,” remarked Skiba. “This was a dangerous roadway for a long time - lots of collisions and injuries. It feels good to know that Alberta Transportation is making this change for Edmonton, and that we can be a part of it.”
Construction on the project begins in the spring of 2021 and is scheduled for completion in October 2022.
January 20, 2021, CALGARY, Alberta -- Lafarge Canada Inc. (Lafarge), Svante Inc. (Svante), and Total S.A. (Total) have reached a major milestone of Project CO2MENT, a first of its kind partnership to capture industrial levels of CO2 emissions from a cement plant. The multi-phase project celebrates the completion of Phase II, construction to have the technology to capture and filter the CO2 from the flue gas. This is a crucial component to achieve the next stage of capturing CO2 flow at the Lafarge Richmond Cement facility in British Columbia.
“This has been a turbulent year for business and people due to the COVID-19 pandemic with many large scale projects being put on hold, but the perseverance that the people working at the Richmond Cement plant continue to show is evident in the success of Project CO2MENT,” stated Brad Kohl, President, and CEO of Lafarge Western Canada. “To continue leading change in the building materials industry means we are always looking to partner with like-minded thought leaders such as Svante and Total. This partnership is showcasing our drive towards a net-zero future, and we are seeing this vision become a reality, right now with the completion of this phase,” added Kohl.
Claude Letourneau, President & CEO of Svante, noted, “When we think about the fight against climate change, we know there has been work on energy efficiencies, renewables, but no major developments on capturing and cost-effectively using CO2 emissions from industrial sources, until now. The last piece of this problem is essential because it is the part that allows us to transition to a carbon-neutral marketplace. Our partnership with Lafarge is building a new net-zero economy, and that is a very positive message we are sending to the world - it can be done.”
The Svante capture unit, a carbon capture technology designed to trap CO2 produced from industrial processes, is now installed at the Richmond Cement Plant. The completion of this phase allows the cement facility to capture the CO2 contained in its cement flue gas and to reuse it for CO2-cured concrete, thus storing it permanently. Coupling this equipment with the alternative fuels used at the plant creates the world’s first full-cycle solution to capture and reuse CO2 from a cement plant. The carbon-efficient examples achieved here are leading the way to a near-zero emissions cement facility.
Phase III, scheduled for work over the next 3 years, will include the installation of a liquefaction unit and the development of an expansion project to further reduce emissions, as well as a business case review for further expansion across the Lafarge network. The technology and implementation of Project CO2MENT are transformative and have not been used in a cement plant before in the world. The results and success of Phase III will contribute to a fundamental shift in the manufacturing of sustainable building materials both in Canada and around the world.
About Lafarge Canada Inc.
Lafarge is Canada’s largest provider of sustainable construction materials and a member of the global group, LafargeHolcim. With 6,000 employees and 350 sites across Canada, our mission is to provide construction solutions that build better cities and communities. The cities where Canadians live, work and raise their families along with the community’s infrastructure benefit from the solutions provided by Lafarge consisting of aggregates, asphalt and paving, cement, precast concrete, ready-mix concrete, and road construction. www.lafarge.ca
About Svante
Svante offers companies in emissions-intensive industries a commercially viable way to capture largescale CO2 emissions from existing infrastructure, either for safe storage or to be recycled for further industrial use in a closed-loop. With the ability to capture CO2 directly from industrial sources at less than half the capital cost of existing solutions, Svante makes industrial-scale carbon capture a reality. Svante’s Board of Directors includes Nobel Laureate and former Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu and ; CEO of OGCI Climate Investments Pratima Rangarajan. www.svanteinc.com
About Total
Total is a major energy company that produces and supplies oil, natural gas, and low-carbon electricity. Our 100,000 employees are committed to better energy that is safer, cleaner, more affordable, more innovative, and accessible to all. With operations in more than 130 countries, our aim is to become the world’s leading responsible energy major.
Contacts
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778-985-5722
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SEPTEMBER 2020, EDMONTON, AB: During Lafarge Canada’s collaboration with the University of Alberta’s PhD Sustainability Scholar program, PhD Student Md Mustafizur Rahman conducted a study to assess the lifecycle and CO2 of recycled aggregates versus natural aggregates in Edmonton, AB. He developed a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) calculator which accounted for the life cycle analysis for aggregates from production site to customer, including GHG generated associated with stripping, mining, de-watering (pumping water), crushing and screening, reclamation, and transportation.
Dr. Rahman’s study also completed the same analysis for recycled aggregates, which lack many manufacturing steps when compared to regular aggregates. One of our sources of recycled aggregates is the rubble from demolition of concrete structures and construction - another step in keeping non-recyclable waste out of our landfills.
In Edmonton, Lafarge stores recycled aggregates at our urban depots, so the transportation distances to the end user are even further reduced compared to facilities outside of the city limits. These factors alone significantly reduce the GHG emissions associated with transportation of aggregates to project sites, and Dr. Rahman’s calculator determines by just how much.
A detailed review of the GHG impact of supplying aggregates to the new Amazon warehouse in the Edmonton area considered haul distances and stripping depths. Lafarge Canada’s Northern Alberta team supplied recycled aggregates for the 1,000,000 ft2 facility - a total of 49,000 tonnes - from our Petroway depot. The recycled aggregate was also selected for its superior performance characteristics in this particular application.
The Sustainability Scholar calculations indicate that we reduced the amount of CO2 by 65% using recycled aggregates versus supplying new aggregate for this application. This is the equivalent of keeping 148 cars off the road for one year!
