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🌍 Megatrends, like urbanization and population growth, are fueling housing demand in Latin America, and Holcim is ready to lead the way. 🏠 At the heart of this is Holcim’s DISENSA, the region’s largest convenience store chain for self-builders and a key pillar of our strategy in the region. 🛠️ With 45% homes built or renovated by self-builders, Disensa offers 85% of what they need to build a typical home, making construction more accessible than ever. 👉  Watch the video to see how Disensa is shaping Latin America’s future. 🔗 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/er62vq_u #BuildingProgress #NextGenGrowth #LATAM #SustainableConstruction

🌍 As the leading partner for sustainable construction, Holcim is helping build NextGen cities, one project at a time. 🇩🇪 In Cologne, Germany, we helped build a modern new school that benefits over 1,000 students and revitalizing a former industrial neighborhood. 🏫 Led by developers UBRE and ZÜBLIN, the project is powered by ECOPact low-carbon concrete and our circular technology ECOCycle®, standing as a beacon of #circularity and setting new standards in sustainability for educational environments. 🔗 Discover more about this Building Icon: https://lnkd.in/e4TbSa3f #BuildingIcons #NextGenGrowth #SustainableConstruction #CircularConstruction

🎉 Fantastic news from Nice! 🎉 ⛵ This morning at 07:39 AM, Team Holcim-PRB, led by the only female skipper in this year's edition, Rosalin Kuiper, successfully completed Leg 3 of The Ocean Race Europe 2025. 🥈 The team secured second place in this leg, continuing to fly the #GOCIRCULAR flag high — demonstrating resilience and bringing the Holcim Spirit to life. 🔗 Missed the story on how Team Holcim-PRB embodies the Holcim Spirit? Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eSAPtHYf #GOCIRCULARbyHolcim #HolcimSpirit #TheOceanRaceEurope2025

🗨 “The agenda of an industrial player like Holcim, and the agenda of the architect can at some point meet to produce better results.” Tatiana Bilbao. 🤝 At the Venice Biennale 2025, renowned architect Tatiana Bilbao shared her perspective on creating a more human-centric and equitable built environment — and how Holcim’s sustainable solutions such as biochar can help make that vision a reality. 🌍 As the leading partner for sustainable construction, Holcim is committed to collaborating with architects and key stakeholders across the value chain to drive innovation and scale sustainable building solutions. 🔗 During this year’s Biennale we also partnered with Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena to present a new carbon sink technology for buildings – learn more about it here: https://lnkd.in/eapqqBYX #HolcimxELEMENTAL #HolcimVenice2025 #HolcimxAravena #HolcimInnovation European Cultural Centre

💧 How are we reducing freshwater withdrawals in water-stressed areas? 🤝By partnering with local businesses — like our collaboration with manufacturer Tesalia cbc in Ecuador — we’re finding ways to optimize water use. 🌍 This is just one of many projects helping Holcim reduce freshwater withdrawal by 33% by 2030, as part of our #NextGenGrowth strategy, as we work to build a nature-positive future. 👉 Swipe to learn more and read the full story. 🔗https://lnkd.in/ekwpR7Nz #BuildingProgress #FreshWater

🌊 Team Holcim-PRB is making waves at The Ocean Race Europe, flying the GO CIRCULAR flag high and bringing the #HolcimSpirit to life at sea! 🌍How do they do it? Driven by a clear purpose to build progress, with sustainability and innovation at the core, the team is not only competing, but they’re contributing to climate and ocean science. 👉 Watch the video, then discover more: https://lnkd.in/eSAPtHYf #GOCIRCULAR #GOCIRCULARbyHolcim #ClimateScience #OceanScience

🤝 We’re proud to have hosted Stuart Smith, a Director at Arup and also member of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, at the Holcim Innovation Center in Lyon! 🌍 As the leading partner for sustainable construction, Holcim is committed to collaborating with architects and key stakeholders to develop and scale the use of sustainable building solutions. 💡 Our Innovation Hub is a vibrant co-creation lab where stakeholders across the construction value chain come together to accelerate circular, resilient, low-carbon, energy-efficient and smart building worldwide. 🔗 Discover more: https://lnkd.in/eyq5VQ4i #BuildingProgress #Innovation #Architecture

🌊 At Friedrichsort Pier near Kiel, Germany, fish are checking into 3D-printed “hotels”,  part of a new artificial reef donated and installed by Holcim to support marine biodiversity and mark the start of The Ocean Race Europe 2025. 🌍 This installation reflects Holcim’s commitment to build progress for people and the planet through sustainable innovation and our #NextGenGrowth 2030 strategy. 🎥 What does this reef mean for the local ecosystem, and how does it reflect Holcim’s circular vision? Hear directly from the team behind the project. 👇 👉 Watch the video and dive into the full story: https://lnkd.in/eVk2i5w3 #GOCIRCULAR #BuildingProgress #GOCIRCULARbyHolcim

🌍 As the leading partner for sustainable construction, Holcim is collaborating with architectural partners to develop innovative building solutions and approaches and accelerate sustainable construction. 🏛 One example is our recent collaboration with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena and his firm ELEMENTAL at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, where we presented a new biochar technology that transforms buildings into carbon sinks. 💬 We caught up with Alejandro Aravena to get his insights on this exciting partnership and what it means for the future of building. 👉 Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/ecyEyfWB #HolcimxELEMENTAL #HolcimVenice2025 #HolcimxAravena #HolcimInnovation European Cultural Centre

🇪🇺 With the EU-funded BLADES2BUILD partnership, Holcim is giving decommissioned wind turbine blades a second wind - transforming them into low-carbon concrete using our ECOCycle® circular technology. 🇪🇸 Aldeavieja wind farm in Spain is now the first in Europe to reuse its own blades in new infrastructure, in a major step forward for circularity in clean energy. 🌍 To capture #NextGenGrowth, Holcim is partnering on projects like this to scale up sustainable, circular construction worldwide. 🔗 Explore the story: https://lnkd.in/ett38nz6 #BuildingProgress #Circularity #CircularConstruction #Innovation