Climate Earth Featured in All Access Segment on Low Carbon Concrete
Climate Earth recently traveled to Boca Raton, FL to film a segment for All Access with Andy Garcia.
We were selected as a featured guest to help educate millions of people about the future of the concrete industry. The All Access Program airs on Public Television stations nationwide and it was a privilege to share this platform with Tyler Ley, we hope you enjoy this behind the scenes look at our upcoming segment together.
Climate Earth CEO Karl Laughton and concrete industry expert Tyler Ley, who leads the concrete research lab at Oklahoma State University, joined the production to talk about why the concrete industry is changing, what low carbon concrete really means, and how technology is helping producers respond to new carbon requirements without sacrificing performance, cost control, or quality.
For an industry that is often misunderstood, this feature is an opportunity to tell a bigger story. Concrete is not going away. It is too essential to how we build roads, bridges, homes, schools, hospitals, data centers, and the infrastructure people depend on every day. But the way concrete is designed, measured, reported, and optimized is changing fast. And that is exactly why this conversation matters.
Key Takeaways
- Climate Earth was invited to participate because low carbon concrete has become one of the most important conversations in construction.
- The feature explores how concrete producers are working to reduce carbon while still meeting performance, durability, cost, and project requirements.
- Karl Laughton discussed Climate Earth’s mission, the evolution of EPD automation, and how software helps producers make better business decisions.
- Tyler Ley discussed the innovation required to bring next-generation concrete products to market and the testing challenges producers face.
- The segment helps show that the concrete industry is not standing still. Producers, suppliers, software providers, and major project owners are all playing a role in building a more sustainable future.
Why Climate Earth Was Invited
Three words: green construction boom. The demand for low carbon building materials is exploding around the globe, and concrete is right in the middle of that conversation. Owners, contractors, architects, engineers, government agencies, and major corporations are asking harder questions about the carbon footprint of the materials used in construction.
Major companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are investing heavily in lower carbon buildings, data centers, and infrastructure. Governments across the United States, Canada, and Europe are introducing new requirements around embodied carbon, Buy Clean policies, CPR and DPP, Environmental Product Declarations, and more transparent material reporting.
Concrete producers are being asked to do more than deliver strong, durable mixes. They are being asked to innovate, optimize, document, test, verify, and prove performance in a market where low carbon requirements are becoming part of the bid. That takes work. It takes investment. It takes technical knowledge. And it takes people who are willing to adapt in an industry where change has historically moved slowly.
This is why, most of the world’s largest construction materials companies, including CRH, Cemex, Holcim, Titan America, and others, are investing in lower carbon materials, mix optimization, alternative cementitious materials, and more sustainable production practices.
That is the story the All Access team wanted to tell. It is a story about the resilience of the concrete industry. For decades, concrete was built on familiar materials, familiar processes, and familiar ways of doing business. It was reliable, essential, and everywhere. Roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, homes, data centers, and entire communities have been built with it.
Concrete, one of the world’s most important building materials is changing faster than ever.
That is where Climate Earth’s work comes in. As a leading low carbon concrete product management and EPD software provider for more than 15 years, Climate Earth helps producers turn EPD and GWP requirements into faster bids, better carbon decisions, and more green project wins.
Climate Earth was invited because our work sits at the center of a much bigger story: the concrete producers, suppliers, technical teams, and industry leaders who are investing in the low carbon concrete future every day. These are the people doing the hard work. They are testing new materials, optimizing mixes, learning new reporting requirements, responding to tougher specifications, and finding practical ways to reduce carbon while still delivering the strength, durability, cost control, and reliability the world expects from concrete.
This feature is a chance to tell the story of an industry that is not standing still. It is the story of concrete producers adapting, investing, and building the next generation of concrete while continuing to deliver the material our roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, homes, and communities depend on.
A Full Day on Set
There were lights. Cameras. Makeup. Retakes. Direction. Waiting. Laughing. Starting over. Trying to answer serious questions naturally while a production crew captured every angle.
It was exciting, funny, a little surreal, and honestly, not something most people in the concrete industry experience every day. But underneath the novelty of being on set was a serious topic: how the concrete industry is preparing for a low carbon future that is already here.
What the Feature Is About
The upcoming All Access feature takes viewers inside one of the biggest shifts happening in construction today: the move toward low carbon concrete. The segment starts with a question the entire industry is facing: how do we keep building the roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, homes, and data centers the world depends on while also lowering the carbon footprint of the built environment?
From there, the conversation moves into what low carbon concrete actually means, why traditional concrete has a higher carbon footprint, and why reducing emissions is more complicated than simply changing one ingredient in a mix.
Viewers will also get a closer look at the pressure concrete producers are under right now. New materials, new testing requirements, EPDs, GWP limits, owner-driven sustainability goals, and changing regulations are all reshaping how concrete products are designed, documented, and brought to market.
The feature highlights the resilience of the concrete industry: the producers, technical teams, suppliers, researchers, and innovators doing the hard work to adapt without compromising strength, durability, cost, or trust.
It also explores how technology is helping make that change possible, including how tools like Climate Earth help producers measure carbon, generate EPDs, compare mix options, respond to project requirements, and make smarter carbon decisions faster.
At its core, this is not just a story about concrete. It is a story about an essential industry at a turning point, and the people working to build the next generation of concrete.
Karl Laughton, CEO of Climate Earth, shared:
“It was a privilege to share this platform with Tyler Ley, who has dedicated his 25+ year career in service of the concrete industry. His work in academia has produced breakthrough research in particle packing like the tarantula curve, used regularly by many to overcome concrete mix design challenges in their regions, in addition to training hundreds of folks working in our industry through his work as a professor at oklahoma state university's concrete technology program.
His work an an inventor has also brought forward tools that help make the process of making new concrete products easier ... like next generation testing machines such as the phoenix and super air meter that are re-shaping testing requirements for producers.
We share a vision for a world that will demand next generation concrete products more than ever before. In that world, product management will also come into focus more than at any point in the history of the concrete industry.
Harnessing continued breakthroughs in material sciences, logistics, and AI to design new products to bid on job specs will become a core capability for all producers if they want to continue to win in their markets.
It is our shared goal to give resources to our market in the form of education, machinery, and software that make this coming future an achievable reality for everyone in our industry.”
— Karl Laughton, CEO of Climate Earth
How To Tune In
The All Access feature is currently in production, and the final release date has not been announced yet. How to get updates:
In the meantime, the conversation continues. Low carbon concrete is no longer a niche topic. It is becoming part of how construction gets specified, bid, produced, and delivered. And Climate Earth is proud to help make that transformation easier.
FAQs
When will the All Access feature be released?
The official release date has not been announced yet. Climate Earth will share the release date and viewing details once they are confirmed.
Who from Climate Earth was interviewed?
Karl Laughton, CEO of Climate Earth, participated in the feature. Tyler Ley was also interviewed to discuss concrete innovation, testing requirements, and the growing importance of innovation in concrete.
What is the feature about?
The feature focuses on low carbon concrete, the environmental impact of concrete, the challenges facing concrete producers, and how technology is helping the industry respond to carbon requirements.
Why was Climate Earth invited to participate?
Climate Earth was invited because of its role in helping the concrete industry measure, manage, and report carbon data through digital EPD automation and carbon-native software tools.
What is low carbon concrete?
Low carbon concrete is concrete designed to reduce embodied carbon while still meeting project-specific requirements for strength, durability, cost, placement, and performance.
Does low carbon concrete perform as well as traditional concrete?
Low carbon concrete can be designed to meet the same performance requirements as traditional concrete, but every mix must be evaluated based on the specific application, materials, region, and project requirements.
How does Climate Earth help producers?
Climate Earth helps producers measure product carbon footprints, generate EPDs, evaluate mixes, respond to project requirements, and make faster carbon-informed decisions across sales, production, quality control, and management.
Where can I learn more?
To learn more about Climate Earth and low-carbon concrete software, visit ClimateEarth.com.
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