building a better future - Cemex

AS A PROVIDER OF HIGH-
SCALE INFRASTRUCTURE
SOLUTIONS, CEMEX
HELPS CONNECT
CITIES AND THEIR
SURROUNDING AREAS
keeping cities connected
With the expectation that 70 percent of the world’s population
will live in urban areas by the year 2050 comes the challenge
of maintaining efficient flows of people, products, and services
in and out of cities. In the developing world, the prevalence
of deteriorating urban infrastructure inhibits both social and
economic progress and limits cities’ potential for sustainable
development.
Case Study:
Guadalajara paving project
CEMEX’s concrete has been shown to offer a number of
advantages over conventional asphalt materials. Not only
do roadways paved with concrete have a longer useful life,
recent research conducted by MIT suggests that the rigidity
of concrete road surfaces can help to improve vehicles’ fuel
economy.
These advantages have spurred many cities and municipalities
around the world to consider concrete as a basic building
block for sustainable urban development. Among our
successful infrastructure projects in 2011 was the repaving
of 21 city avenues in Guadalajara—Mexico’s second largest
urban center. In response to public demand for repair of the
city’s damaged asphalt streets, Guadalajara’s public-works
department engaged CEMEX to lay 41 kilometers of concrete
pavement, equal to seven percent of the city’s total
paved area.
As a leading provider of high-scale infrastructure solutions,
CEMEX helps connect cities and their surrounding areas in
a number of ways. In 2011, we completed 188 infrastructure
projects, representing more than 8 million square meters of
pavement for highways, mass transit projects, airport runways,
and city streets.
TOTAL PAVED AREA
thousands of square meters PROJECTS
Mexico 7,752,600 172
Colombia 41,300 5
Panama 88,100 2
Costa Rica 12,000 1
Nicaragua 58,800 2
Dominican Republic 61,950 5
Puerto Rico 30,600 1
Total 8,045,350 188
Tianjin Express Road
in China, 123,000 m 3
of ready-mix concrete
Newly paved streets in Guadalajara -The Guadalajara
paving project provides a long-term solution to
the city’s transportation infrastructure needs while
offering a number of sustainability advantages.
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