Carbon-negative and ultra-low carbon are not just claims!

30 Jun 2026 CW Team

In an interaction with Construction World, Tarun Jami, Founder, GreenJams, explains how the company is cutting cement’s carbon footprint by 80 per cent through Binder, while scaling innovations such as Agrocrete® and Novastone to make buildings lighter, faster and carbon-negative.

Agrocrete® is positioned as a carbon-negative material. What does this mean for developers?

For developers, Agrocrete® offers a practical way to reduce embodied carbon at the material level. Since walling forms a significant part of a building’s material footprint, using carbon-negative blocks can bring the net embodied carbon of walls down to zero and also help offset emissions from high-carbon elements such as RCC, aluminium façades and other construction materials...

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