Build to last with Holcim solutions
At Holcim, we are Building Icons in cities worldwide. Built by iconic people, they showcase our circular, resilient, low-carbon, energy-efficient and smart solutions. Sustainable, functional and beautiful, these icons are improving people's lives.
Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project
Melbourne, Australia
Beneath the streets of Melbourne, the Metro Tunnel Project is helping reshape the city’s public transport network. As one of Australia’s largest infrastructure developments, it shows how innovative concrete solutions can support major construction while reducing embodied carbon and conserving raw materials.
With specialised low-carbon concrete mixes and circular material innovation, Holcim helped deliver the strength and durability required for this complex underground project. From reducing Portland cement use to incorporating recycled glass in structural-grade concrete, the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project demonstrates how more sustainable construction can be achieved at scale.
Watch how Holcim supported the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project
WOOD WHARF
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
In London’s historic Canary Wharf, the mixed-use development Wood Wharf is an icon of sustainable construction. It is blazing a trail as one of the first projects in the UK to use Holcim’s low-carbon concrete ECOPact with 20% construction demolition materials inside.
For over 30 years, Canary Wharf has shifted London’s centre of gravity east and upwards, as technologies develop and ambition soars. Now Wood Wharf, a milestone in circular construction, is redefining this historic part of the city.
THE ELLINIKON
ATHENS, GREECE
In Greece’s mythic capital Athens, Europe’s largest urban regeneration project is taking shape. Covering 6 million square meters, the “modern, green city” of The Ellinikon is being built with Holcim’s end-to-end low-carbon solutions. With ECOPlanet cement, ECOPact and DYNAMax concretes, and more, Holcim is currently providing these for 90% of the project’s structures.
When people think of buildings in Athens they think about the icons of the past such as the Acropolis or the Ancient Agora. More recently for some, the striking 1960s concrete terminal building of Ellinikon International Airport, designed by Eero Saarinen, comes to mind.
Now, on the site of this old airport, a new Building Icon is taking off. The Ellinikon is built to last, with Holcim’s circular, resilient, low-carbon, energy-efficient and smart building solutions inside. And it's creating a buzz, as a lighthouse for sustainable construction.
The Square
St Gallen, Switzerland
Designed by renowned architect Sou Fujimoto, The SQUARE Learning Center in St. Gallen, Switzerland, is an innovative place to think, learn and work, built using ECOPact+ low-carbon concrete with ECOCycle® inside.
The SQUARE’s exterior is formed from a framework of white metal beams typical of Fujimoto’s style, while Holcim’s concrete was used for structural work and interior beams.
We found this eco concrete by Holcim. I thought it was a nice challenge to use a new technology of reducing carbon through concrete structures.
