Solutions for Resilient Building | Holcim

Climate is changing and it is essential that homes, schools and other vital infrastructure are resilient enough to cope. At the same time, bringing nature into cities helps ensure biodiversity and improve wellbeing, as it helps keep cities cooler during heat waves, and serves as a natural storm water management system during periods of heavy rainfall.

Holcim provides solutions that help cities become more resilient and energy efficient.

Building water-wise cities
Holcim offers a wide range of innovative solutions to avoid flooding and improve cities’ water management capabilities:

Hydromedia permeable concrete rapidly absorbs rainwater off streets, parking surfaces, driveways and walkways – reducing flooding risk. It enables ultra-rapid evacuation of water directly into the soil, producing a natural aquifer recharge or allowing the water to be recycled.

Holcim’s precast stormwater management solutions include drainage, detention, treatment, harvesting and reuse systems, such as Humes’ HumeFilter Universal Pollutant Trap (UPT).

Elevate’s EPDM lining solutions, such as GeoSmart and PondEasy, are designed for water storage and usage.

Create cool, green cities
Holcim’s range of innovative solutions are helping cities create green spaces to make them more liveable.

Green roofs help control temperatures and combat the urban heat island effect.

• ZinCo is a global leader in advanced green roofing systems with many spectacular projects worldwide.
• Elevate EPDM and TPO roofing membranes offer a reliable and durable foundation for green roof applications.

Hydromedia permeable concrete helps bring greenery into urban areas. With its permeable properties, it allows direct rainwater infiltration over urban surfaces, allowing us to create urban forests without irrigation.

Artevia® decorative concrete has a highly reflective coloring, to increase the albedo quality of the surface and reduce the heat island effect.

Restoring marine ecosystems
Holcim offers resilient solutions for the coastal engineering, river protection and infrastructure construction segments.

• Basalton shore protection system for coast and revetment areas provides stabilization and erosion control.
• Xbloc is a coastal breakwater armor system using Holcim low-carbon concrete solutions such as ECOPact low-carbon concrete**, which also incorporates recycled construction demolition materials.

Application in Jurong Lake, Singapore

Application in Urban Forest, Paris

*Green roofs as defined by the World Green Infrastructure Network.
**ECOPact achieves at least 30% lower GWP (kg CO2e/m3, A1-A3 scope) compared with the applicable Ordinary Portland Cement (CEM I/Type I) concrete reference.