Crossroads North Building 11

Location: Van Buren, Michigan

Award: Lower Carbon Concrete

Project Team

Owner: Ashley Capital

Contractor: Oliver/Hatcher Construction

Concrete Contractor: Fessler & Bowman, Inc.

Concrete: Superior Materials

Slag Cement: St Marys Cement

This distribution center building in Van Buren Township, MI, USA, was built using a ternary slag cement/limestone blended cement. The concrete finishers reportedly liked the mixture’s plastic characteristics, including its bleeding rate and finishability, and tests verified that the mixture provided the required strength. The blended slag cement helped to lower the global warming potential (GWP) of the cement used in the project by 127 kg of CO2eq/tonne (254 lb of CO2eq/ton) compared to PLC from the same St Marys Cement, Detroit, MI cement plant.

Application Type

Application Type
% Slag Cement Replacement	15% Slag cement interground with 12% limestone
% Portland Cement
% Portland Limestone Cement
% Other SCM (if applicable)
Aggregate
Water/cement ratio	0.52
7-day strengths
28-day strengths