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Very few construction companies know their carbon footprint.

By | October 18th 2026
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Between 76 and 86 million tons of construction debris are generated annually in Germany. Credits: Freek Wolsink, pexels

Diesel, electricity, cement, gypsum, truck tolls, waste disposal: A CO₂ surcharge is now included in the prices of these items. Construction companies pay for their CO₂ emissions through this surcharge, but only five percent of construction companies in Germany know their actual CO₂ footprint. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Technical University of Dresden in a representative study. They surveyed 601 companies nationwide in the winter of 2025/2026… Read more »

Analysis: Why gypsum is not essential for the construction industry

By | September 28, 2026
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Landscape destruction is cheap: Here, an open-pit mine operated by Rigips, Saint Gobain. Credits: pugnalom

From a scientific, building physics, and materials engineering perspective, the statement that gypsum is "essential" as a building material—meaning it is indispensable and absolutely necessary—is incorrect. While gypsum plays a dominant economic role in modern construction, particularly in the area of ​​fast and inexpensive interior finishing, it possesses not a single structural property that cannot be replaced by other, often more ecological, materials. Gypsum fails… Read more »