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The Pollinators Pavilion is both a visitor center and a new type of inhabitation for solitary bees 🐝🐝🐝, which are native, stingerless, and responsible for 70% of global non-agricultural pollination. Yet much of solitary bee habitat is under threat due to development or urbanization, and there is limited research on solitary bee habitats and nesting behavior. #bees #ductal @ductaluhpc #pollination #sustainabledevelopment

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Recalling the ovoid bristling form of solitary bees’ compound eyes 🐝🐝🐝, Pollinators Pavilion provides a visitor’s center for Stone House Farm, a 2,500-acre organic farm in Livingston, NY, that contributes to the Rockefellers’ broad ecological agenda in the area. In the US, @ductaluhpc makes it easier to “bee” alone. #bees #ductal #pollination #sustainabledevelopment

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The Pollinators Pavillion creates a habitat for solitary bees 🐝🐝🐝 who account for 70% of global non-agricultural pollination. It’s a wooden structure supporting 300 cast concrete panels, where 5,000 solitary bees can make their home in nesting tubes in the panels. The varied positions and orientations of panels allow the testing of diverse living conditions for solitary bees to optimize future manmade habitats, previously a little-researched area. The project was awarded third place at the New York City Media Lab Tech Expo of 2018. The panel system was achieved through partnership in material research with our @ductaluhpc team. #bees #ductal #pollination #sustainabledevelopment Livingston, NY

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It is an exciting time to work in the building materials sector. The world is facing a process of rapid urbanization accompanied by increased pressure on strategic resources such as water, raw materials, and energy. LafargeHolcim is seeking to recruit, develop, and retain the best talent to help us meet the challenges and opportunities of the future. We need people eager to grow to their full potential while delivering value to our shareholders, customers, and society in general. #workingatlafargeholcim #buildingindustry

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We want to create an inclusive workplace that respects diversity for all LafargeHolcim employees around the world. Supportive working conditions and diverse teams build a promise of value for all our stakeholders. In honoring this commitment, we are proud to have joined the European Round Table of Industrialists (ETR)’s diversity and inclusion pledge - the largest of its kind in Europe. We are committed to supporting our employees and helping them to grow to their fullest professional potential. At our company people can flourish and succeed - independent of gender, ethnicity, age, religious or cultural background, disabilities, and sexual orientations. #workingatlafargeholcim #buildingindustry

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Our performance culture is underpinned by values of trust and integrity, a commitment to the Health & Safety of one another and a desire to be at the forefront of sustainable construction solutions and innovation. The performance objectives of our employees are fully aligned with business goals. Regular checks take place between employees and their line managers during the year in order to align execution and provide timely and constant feedback – a key factor for a strong performance culture. #workingatlafargeholcim #buildingindustry

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At LafargeHolcim we are proud to help cities implement and expand mass transit systems -- such as the metro systems 🚇 being developed all over India. India already has more cities with more than 1 million residents than all of Europe put together. By 2030 India will become the world's most populous country. Through our Indian subsidiaries ACC and Ambuja Cement (@ambuja_cement_official), we have the footprint to help advance these efforts on a nation-wide scale. #acc #ambujacement #subway #newdelhisubway

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By 2021, Delhi’s metro network 🚇 will be bigger than the London Underground. Cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, to name just a few, are extensively upgrading their urban infrastructure. Metro systems can not only decongest cities, but they can clean them up, too. In Delhi, there are around 580,000 less vehicles on the roads thanks to the metro — meaning around 855,000 tons of pollutants are kept out of the air. For many, a journey by metro also means more comfort: “It’s better for the city than road transport because there’s no issue of traffic or pollution. I don’t have the troubles of the road, and can be in an environment that is air-conditioned and clean,” says Toussef, a resident of one of Delhi’s many sub-cities. #acc #ambujacement #subway #newdelhisubway

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High-demand infrastructure projects require high-performance concrete. In India LafargeHolcim’s subsidiary Ambuja Cement (@ambuja_cement_official) partnered with Alcon Group Goa to develop a cement with micro-fine particles for just such projects. Called Alccofine, these particles give it great durability, as well as a host of other properties such as smoother finishes, quicker setting times and resistance to pollutants that can be a critical support for completing large-scale infrastructure projects on time and up to standard. Alccofine can even be applied in ‘shotcrete’ form, meaning construction crews can pump it through a hose and spray it onto any surface; even directly upwards. #acc #ambujacement #Alccofine #subway #newdelhisubway

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LafargeHolcim launches “ The Plants of Tomorrow” to further boost the efficiency of its industrial operations and to prevent issues before these occur. The four-year “Plants of Tomorrow” Initiative is one of the largest roll-outs of Industry 4.0 technologies in the building materials industry. It targets a global network of over 270 integrated cement plants and grinding stations across more than 50 countries and utilizes automation technologies and robotics, artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance and digital twin technologies for the entire production process. #plantsoftomorrow

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