Building electrification costs dwarf the green premium on low-carbon cement
Yanni Sippis · The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement · Feb 5, 2025 · at 13:17
WS Development Senior VP Yanni Sippis discusses the relative financial impact of low-carbon cement versus major building system electrification in commercial construction.
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“The premium that we pay for sustainability in terms of this building being all electric in terms of the quality of the systems and the nature of the systems that we're already building into the building makes the cost of the cement, even if it were the entire building, pale in comparison. So the industry has already adjusted to a degree and embraced the notion of paying some degree of premium for sustainability.”
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