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NEWS28 CPI %u2013 Concrete Plant International %u2013 2 | 2026 www.cpi-worldwide.comOn 27 January 2026, Goldbeck, a construction and service company operating throughout Europe, opened a concrete research centre at its precast concrete plant in Hamm (Westphalia, Germany). At the Concrete Innovation Centre, the company is primarily researching and working on the decarbonisation of the building material. Through the digital and cross-plant networking of science and start-up approaches with the real production environment, Goldbeck aims to enable precast concrete elements with net zero emissions in the medium term.Concrete is the most commonly used building material worldwide. At the same time, its production accounts for approximately eight per cent of global CO2 emissions. At the Concrete Innovation Centre in Hamm, Goldbeck is therefore developing solutions for the decarbonisation of concrete. Compared to the CO2 industry reference values for concrete according to the Concrete Sustainability Council, significant savings of up to 35 per cent have already been achieved. In the 2030s, the company aims to produce precast concrete elements with net zero emissions %u2013 with no additional costs in the long term.In the long term, the concrete developed at the Concrete Innovation Centre can even act as a CO2 sink, meaning that the building material binds more emissions than it releases. This development will enable new buildings to meet strict regulatory requirements economically and companies to achieve their sustainability goals even more efficiently.Sustainable concrete %u2013 economical and scalable One component of decarbonisation is the use of more sustainable cements and binders. In addition, concrete formulations, mixing concepts and manufacturing processes are being optimised to significantly reduce the cement content. To ensure consistently high quality, however, methods are being used to accelerate the hardening process. This is particularly important for serial construction, as components can then be processed more quickly. \promote sustainable construction, you have to take a holistic view of the building over its entire life cycle,\Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck, managing partner. \Innovation Centre, we are working on processes that can be applied on an industrial scale and in the market. We develop solutions for the world's most important building material and thus leverage a key driver of global decarbonisation.\Combining research and productionThe Concrete Innovation Centre is unique in its approach: \Goldbeck opens new research centre for the decarbonisation of concreteSustainability is not \Celebrating the opening of the Goldbeck Concrete Innovation Centre: Michael Six (Chief Sustainability Officer and Managing Director of Goldbeck Deutschland GmbH), Lukas Romanowski (Team Leader System Development at Goldbeck), J%u00f6rg-Uwe Goldbeck (Managing Partner), Ortwin Goldbeck (Company Founder), Thomas Adams (Head of the Concrete Innovation Centre) and Sebastian Tsch%u00f6pe (Managing Director of Goldbeck Betonelemente Hamm GmbH). %u00a9 Goldbeck GmbH