Doka has earned an EcoVadis Silver rating in the 2026 assessment, placing the formwork and scaffolding specialist in the top 15% of more than 150,000 rated companies and scoring 91/100 in the environmental category. The company is targeting net zero by 2040 through expanded on-site photovoltaics, fleet electrification and value-chain emission cuts, backed by Science Based Targets initiative commitments. For contractors, Doka’s rental-based circular model, refurbishment services, Xlife top formwork sheet with recycled content, and product carbon footprint data for over 7,000 items offer practical levers to reduce project embodied carbon.

Australia’s asphalt sector, led by guidance from the Australian Flexible Pavements Association (AfPA) and Projects Technical Advisor Trevor Distin, is pushing performance-based mix design to exploit asphalt’s 100 per cent recyclability and cut pavement carbon. Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is being reprocessed into new surface and base courses, with higher RAP contents enabled by rejuvenators, tighter binder grading and improved plant controls. For designers and asset owners, the shift means specifying functional performance (rutting, fatigue, texture, skid resistance) and lifecycle cost rather than prescriptive mix recipes.

The US Department of Energy’s TRACE-Ga initiative is awarding about $5.4 million to five firms to design and validate flowsheets to restart primary gallium production, after nearly 40 years of zero domestic output and 100% import reliance under China’s 98% global supply dominance. PHNX Materials will target non-traditional waste streams to co-produce gallium, supplementary cementitious materials, alumina and ammonium sulphate, while Atlantic Alumina and Found Energy will apply counter-current ion exchange, electrochemistry and Direct Bayer Extraction to recover gallium from hot, dilute Bayer liquors. Kunin Technologies aims for a 12 tpa gallium pathway from high-Ga metal streams, and Indium Corporation will build recycling-based recovery from scrap, signalling new process options for alumina refineries and metallurgical residues.