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Work on Progress

Climate neutral by 2040. Let's shake on it!

Our journey into the future has begun.

On the construction site, we’re used to straight talk. So let’s just come right out and say it: We’ve got a problem. The construction industry is responsible for 38 % of global carbon emissions. Clearly, our industry must be part of the solution. After all, we are positioned at one of the biggest levers for a better future. And if we move this lever, a lot will change. STRABAG will reimagine the construction industry. Our clear goal, perhaps the most important in our company’s history: becoming climate neutral by 2040.

But we won’t achieve this goal overnight. It is a process that requires technologies, some of which we must – and will – develop before we can begin. We need completely new ways of working, ways that conserve resources and make us less dependent on fossil energy. And we need to walk this path together from this moment on. For our common mission: Work On Progress.

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STRABAG Manifest

Few industries have a greater responsibility to find solutions for climate-neutral, socially responsible and environmentally friendly business practices than the construction industry. And STRABAG sees it as its duty to honour this responsibility – for our employees, for society and, above all, for future generations.
 
The construction industry must embrace real change – and every one of us has to contribute their share. Our goal is to build a broad movement driven by the many steps and innovations, both big and small, that will be made in the years and decades to come.

WORK ON PROGRESS

If you’re looking for innovative answers to tomorrow’s challenges, you’ve got to ask the right questions today. We want to continue to set the pace for the whole industry by becoming not only the most innovative but also the most sustainable construction company in Europe.

  • Can concrete become greener?
    As the most commonly used building material, concrete – and the cement clinker used in its production – plays a central role from a sustainability viewpoint. Through our use of binders with a lower clinker content, we have cut our carbon emissions by as much as 50 %. Our Innovation Center building on the STRABAG campus in Stuttgart was built using this more sustainable form of concrete. 
    Tree
  • Is it possible to make an asphalt that can actually clean the air?
    Three and a half years of intense collaborative research have made it possible: ClAir® Asphalt makes use of natural UV radiation to break down the nitrogen oxides bound in the air and convert them into harmless nitrates thanks to a special aggregate consisting of concrete mixed with titanium dioxide. The material, which is incorporated directly into the hot asphalt surface using an innovative installation process, helps to reduce the nitrogen dioxide concentration in the air by up to 26 %. The air-purifying asphalt was developed by the STRABAG competence centre TPA GmbH together with nine partners from science and industry.
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  • We recycle empty bottles. Why not our streets as well?
    For most of us, recycling our bottles and cans has been second nature for years. At STRABAG, we think that recycling should also become the norm in road construction. That’s why we already use 385,000 tonnes of recycled asphalt in our road projects every year and are working on solutions to increase this figure even further. In this way, we are building a road towards a more sustainable future. And we believe that a lot more is possible!
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Some milestones of our progress

Presenting: Selected projects that are already helping us move into a climate-neutral future today.

Photo of mixed-use development at Behrens-Ufer © DIEfabrik GmbH, Peter Ruessmann

We build the cities of tomorrow.

With Behrens-Ufer, we are creating a sustainable district in Berlin where people and their needs are at the centre and modernisation, climate protection and heritage preservation work together. 

Read more about the sustainable mixed-use development in Berlin

We bring human expertise and AI together. And optimize building design.

Generative Design offers building planners a wide range of potentials for the sustainable design of building objects. We do this by translating architectural knowledge and building expertise into algorithms. In this way, we combine human expertise with artificial intelligence.

Find out more about Generative Design
The stones drive the conveyor belt with their weight.

Rolling stones gather no moss. But they can generate electricity.

At our quarry near Saalfelden, we produce electrical energy using the weight of the excavated material on the conveyor. This allows us to cover around 20 % of the annual electricity needs at the quarry ourselves.

How does that work?
Witten/Herdecke University © Johannes Buldmann

A look into the future

At Witten/Herdecke University, we completed one of the most sustainable buildings in Germany – and a creative space for future generations.

Check out the "future space"
3D printer in action

We are driving 3D printing forward.

Printing an entire building – is that possible? In collaboration with 3D concrete printing pioneer PERI, we have already completed a 125 m² building in Austria using one of the largest 3D printers in the world. And with 3DLight_OnSite, we are raising the bar with mobile printing robots and bionic lightweight construction.

A look into the future

We create startups in-house. And encourage our employees to expand their skills.

With STRABAG's "adASTRA" intrapreneurship programme, we promote entrepreneurial mindset among our employees by responding to industrial challenges with innovative business ideas.

This is where adASTRA takes you to the stars.

We transfer digital models directly to the construction site with augmented reality.

In the Czech town of Brandýs, mobile devices are used in a BIM2Field project for the optimisation of processes on construction sites. Smartphones, for instance, can generate BIM-based augmented reality layers that are placed onto the natural landscape and, at the same time, collect location data.

How do we do that?

Three big topics. One even bigger goal.

It will be a marathon and not a sprint.

There’s still a long way to go before we become climate neutral in 2040. But we have a clearly defined and ambitious roadmap that will bring us closer to our destination, step by step.

2025
Climate-neutral administration
2030
Climate-neutral construction projects
2035
Climate-neutral building operation
2040
Climate-neutral construction materials & infrastructure
2050
Europe becomes the first climate-neutral continent

Progress needs one thing above all:

People who know what they want and who challenge the established ways of doing things. STRABAG’s innovative strength is sustained by our approximately 79,000 employees worldwide – and it will take each and every one of us to lead STRABAG into a sustainable future.

Let's build the future together!