Infrastructure That Powers What’s Next
CRH is building resilience for a changing world
As your partner of choice across transport, water and reindustrialization, you can rely on us to solve your construction challenges in smarter, more sustainable ways by combining and connecting the right materials, products and services from our connected portfolio.
Roads
Keeping our communities connected
Growing cities and changing, extreme weather make smarter, safer, more resilient roads essential. Our unmatched scale and connected portfolio means certainty of supply for the most ambitious projects – as we solve complex challenges and build vital infrastructure.
Focus areas
Highways
Bridges
Roads
Highways
Highways
We create essential infrastructure that shrinks distance and stands up to stress.
With extensive experience in every aspect of highway construction, we create meaningful impact from the design phase all the way through to construction and long-term maintenance. Our streamlined supply chain gives you one point of contact for all the elements necessary to create nation-spanning highways, from sub-base and pavement, to shoulders, barriers and striping all the way to curbs, filter drains, parking lots and efficient, precast bridge systems.
However challenging your project, we help create resilient infrastructure that will connect communities for generations to come.
Bridges
Bridges
We help you plan, build and maintain the mega-structures that span rivers and oceans.
Where concrete meets steel, we help create some of the world’s most inspiring and enduring structures. Our expertise spans the design, fabrication, transportation, installation, design and manufacture for large-scale precast projects, underpinned by the engineering and technical knowledge to support the highest levels of architectural ambition. Leveraging our material science expertise, we deliver high-strength concrete solutions that support bridge foundations and structures. Our teams help you overcome complex challenges to ensure safety, efficiency and minimal environmental impact.
Roads
Roads
We make the roads people and businesses depend on.
From racetracks to residential streets, we design and deliver cutting-edge surfaces, the infrastructure that runs beneath them and the street furniture that keeps their users safe.
We produce and provide the materials that make the road, from sub-base and binder to surface layer. Whether your pavement needs an asphalt or concrete surface, we’re your innovative partner end to end.
We are expert providers of drainage layers, and we design and build geosynthetic reinforcement and retaining walls to stabilize the soil beneath the road. We account for water management, data and power cable management, protection and access, street lighting and even temporary street furniture to protect infrastructure and the public during construction.
All of these are integrated with permeable or impermeable surfacing to deliver the scalable, connected solution that best fits the needs of your project.
Key transport infrastructure capabilities
See how we’re innovating to meet the future needs of transport infrastructure.
Next-Gen Surfaces
Roads that can stand up to heat, cold, F1 races and heavy-duty trucks. Roads that drain away surface water. We’ve got the technical skill and facilities to develop bespoke and next-gen surface blends.
Recycled Roads
Build lower-carbon roads that deliver the same great performance. CRH is the largest recycler of asphalt in North America, and our experts in material science are working to re-use even more.
Biobinders
Cut crude oil from your asphalt. We’re at the forefront of biobinder research, using technology, advanced techniques and alternative fuels without sacrificing quality.
Mix Design
We can create optimized mix designs that maximize recycled and lower-carbon materials while maintaining strength and performance.
Pavement Design
We offer customized pavement design to meet specific performance needs, including permeable pavements for stormwater management and more.
Site Preparation
Our construction services cover a wide range of site preparation needs, including grading and base preparation, excavation and utility installation and other ancillary services.
Water
Capturing, conveying, treating and protecting water at every stage of its journey
As populations grow and natural events like droughts and flooding grow more common, water shortages across the world are rapidly increasing. CRH is helping to upgrade our aging, vulnerable water infrastructure to reduce water loss and meet future demand.
Focus areas
Stormwater
Wastewater
Potable
Stormwater
Stormwater
We plan, engineer and optimize fully integrated stormwater solutions, enhancing the resilience of system design.
It starts before the first drop ever falls—detecting rain, readying systems and alerting communities.
Once rain hits the ground, we collect it and remove waterborne pollutants before conveying it back into the environment.
Our connected portfolio spans the supply chain from end-to-end, with deep expertise at every step. Our solutions can help you optimize stormwater asset management, meet clean water regulations, harvest and reuse rainwater, mitigate flooding and recharge our pressured groundwater supplies.
Wastewater
Wastewater
We look after every stage of the cycle that turns wastewater back into a usable resource.
We collect it, convey it and treat it—getting it ready to return to the environment.
Our solutions improve the effectiveness and efficiency of industrial and municipal wastewater treatment. We can help you remove fine grit to improve operational performance and extend asset lifetimes and dewater biosolids to improve solids handling and bioenergy output.
Potable
Clean Water
We make sure water is safe to drink, and move it securely and efficiently from source to tap.
Our solutions can help you monitor groundwater and reservoir levels, forecast supply and demand, convey and control drinking water and detect leaks with accuracy.
Ground water supplies face increasing pressure from population growth, increased industrial and agricultural demands and changing global weather.
Our surface, shallow and deep infiltration systems effectively collect, store and infiltrate precipitation, increasing the amount of water that is returned to aquifers, helping to replenish supplies that have been depleted due to weather events or extensive human use.
Key water capabilities
CRH’s key water capabilities deliver connected solutions that span design, treatment, monitoring and maintenance. With advanced technologies and proven engineering, we help solve today’s toughest water challenges efficiently and more sustainably.
Unparalleled Support
Digital design tools, next-gen modeling, customized engineering and drawing support to help engineers, owners and operators to work better, faster, and smarter—from concept to operation.
Stormwater Treatment
Storage (detention, retention, infiltration), passive flow control and pollutant removal—protecting homes, businesses and critical infrastructure.
Green Infrastructure
Tested and verified by NJCAT, our engineered stormwater systems mimic natural processes with high capacity biofilters infiltrated into subsoil.
Cutting-Edge Solids Removal Technologies
Drinking water, wastewater and industrial water grit management systems—protecting sensitive processes, improving treatment effectiveness and efficiency.
Maintenance and Onsite Services
Helping operators to extend asset lifetimes, minimize operational expenditures and keep plants operating at peak efficiency.
Hydrometry and Monitoring
Helping municipalities and utilities to understand their water environment and make better water management decisions.
Leak Detection
Detect and locate leaks instantly and automatically with our intelligent monitoring tech.
Deep Infiltration
Rainwater soil injection. Low-impact, high-efficiency precision deep drilling for onsite water management.
Flood Mitigation
Flood warning, storage and passive flow control systems that protect homes, businesses and critical infrastructure.
Energy
Creating the world’s future energy infrastructure
Energy generation, storage and distribution is rapidly transforming. CRH brings a track record of successfully delivering a more resilient, innovative and scalable set of solutions that help build large scale energy infrastructure.
Focus areas
Generation
Transmission
Distribution
Generation
Generation
We help create safe, resilient onshore and offshore wind farms and nuclear plants.
Transmission
Grid
Building the infrastructure to accommodate the energy transition to renewable energy sources.
Distribution
Consumption
We make EV charging points and other infrastructure to power our world’s moving parts.
Energy & energy transition
We help create safe, resilient wind farms and nuclear plants.
Onshore and Offshore Wind Farms
Wind turbines need to withstand blistering gales on some of the most exposed sites. We’ve got the materials, products and expertise to handle it. As a leading expert in concrete, we can create turbine bases that stand up to extremes, rooted in the ground or floating at sea. From design and delivery to decommissioning and recycling, we’re involved in the full lifecycle of energy infrastructure.
Nuclear Plants
We understand that construction costs and delays are a key risk to project success. With hundreds of operating companies globally, we draw on a vast pool of knowledge and expertise to help put together robust plans, solve issues and navigate regulations. Our experienced teams, unified supply chain and strong relationships with major contractors allow us to deliver energy infrastructure sustainably, at scale and with an unrelenting dedication to safety through all production and delivery processes.
Moving Energy
We help energy flow to where it’s needed. We’re your partner in building the new systems needed to manage a cleaner, but more complex energy system. As energy diversifies, the grid needs to adapt. We’re at the forefront of this evolving network. We can help you plan, manage and carry out projects, and we supply essential materials as well as groundbreaking plug-and-play units that simplify and save time.
Supplying Energy
Businesses and enterprises are rapidly adopting electric vehicle technology to power commercial vehicles. We’re supporting this evolution with smart precast charging point foundation solutions and infrastructure. Our unmatched ability to scale and replicate, combined with our innovative engineering, gets your sites operational faster and ensures you’re ready for the future.
Key energy capabilities
From low-carbon materials to plug-and-play grid units and smart monitoring systems, we’re helping energy projects come together faster and perform better. With the right mix of innovation, support and expertise, our energy capabilities make even the most complex builds more efficient and sustainable.
Plug-and-Play Grid Units
Cut time and complexity from grid builds. Our precast units come ready made with all the infrastructure built in.
Resilient Materials
We offer lower-carbon options for cement, concrete, precast and asphalt to help you reach your project ambitions without compromising on performance and design.
Site Design Support
We have extensive experience and expertise in building on challenging sites, from geo-synthetic soil reinforcement to access roads, ensuring a well-planned, efficient construction process.
Energy Monitoring
Smart sensors and systems to track the efficiency of your materials and buildings.
Design Consultation
Bring us your energy challenge, and we’ll help you design the system to solve it.
Materials Design
We offer advice and develop specific materials to work with your energy system and challenges.
Data Centers
Mission critical infrastructure for the digital economy
In today’s world, data has become a critical asset, with people expecting to have the latest knowledge, information and intelligence at their fingertips. Data centers are the key enablers of our ‘new’ way of living; whether it’s your next Amazon delivery, or your Airbnb holiday booking, it’s all powered through data centers. We work with enterprises and developers to meet the surging demand for data, fueled by AI, to build data centers faster, smarter and with lower CO2 emissions.
Focus areas
Lower-Carbon Construction
Site Preparation
Building and Infrastructure
Lower-Carbon Construction
Lower-Carbon Construction
We work with you from the very beginning, so that a more sustainable approach is a part of every stage of your project, helping you reduce emissions along the way.
We don’t just supply lower-carbon materials, we support our customers in optimizing mix-designs, and engineering more resilient solutions. We can also handle the complex planning, calculation and logistics involved in integrating them in your project, creating a lasting impact.
We’ll support you by leveraging our Global Innovation Team, using the latest technology and techniques available. That means working in smart ways, preserving our valuable resources.
Site Preparation
Site Preparation
Through integrated planning, design, engineering, manufacturing and the delivery of essential materials, products and services, we build faster and de-risk construction, increase site value and lower ownership cost and help customers achieve their sustainability targets.
Our subsurface capabilities include foundations, site design & engineering; energy & communication utilities; and storm & industrial wastewater management.
We take care of planning, logistics and execution, so that you start your data center construction right and finish on time.
Building and Infrastructure
Building and Infrastructure
Underground, our engineers and designers take into account geo-synthetic soil stabilization, water management, utilities and more to efficiently prepare the way for your mission critical project.
At the building phase, we create robust, mirror-smooth surfaces, providing the right foundation for our tilt-up walls or precast structure. Our engineering expertise ensures your floor can stand up to whatever you demand of it, and our geographic reach ensures there’s always a plant nearby to reduce lead times and transport expenses.
Data centers are a critical part of our world, but also a critical part of the communities where they are deployed. Our finishing products create the right aesthetics to blend your structure into the community. Our finishing products include masonry block, architectural walling elements, permeable pavers and landscaping products needed to finish the site development.
Key data center capabilities
From innovative, resilient products to smart solutions that reduce carbon, accelerate timelines, and ensure compliance, we combine our unmatched scale with deep local expertise to help you deliver the most complex projects.
Plug-and-Play Flooring
Cut weeks off timelines. Our pre-made flooring comes with energy, internet and water utilities built in.
Lower-Carbon Concrete
We innovate to develop advanced lower-carbon materials, so you can cut environmental harm without compromising on strength.
Energy Monitoring
We develop smart sensors to track the heat efficiency of your materials and buildings.
Regional Expertise
Our network allows us to know the local geography, regulations and talent.
Design Consultation
We partner with engineers to optimize site needs and requirements, make sure specs are met and clear the way for a build that runs to schedule.
Prefab Building Parts
As well as essential materials, we supple pre-made parts that can be installed as is to cut build times.
Airports
Helping the world move and meet
Airports are as complex as they are critical. Aircraft, people, vehicles and cargo, all moving around the world 24/7. Since 1944, we’ve worked with governments, enterprises and developers to build, expand, and upgrade these vital transportation hubs.
Focus areas
Maintenance-as-a-Service
Mix Design
Site Prep
Asphalt Design
Logistics and Onsite Support
Maintenance-as-a-Service
Maintenance-as-a-Service
Safety is a core value for CRH. We know that your runways have to be in optimal condition, allowing every plane to make a safe and smooth landing. We provide maintenance as a service, to maintain your runways and aprons and the infrastructure beneath it, allowing you to move from reactive to predictive maintenance, limiting runway closures.
Mix Design
Mix Design
As the leading materials provider, we provide optimal mix design tailored to every project. We optimize the percentage of recycled content, lower the carbon footprint and optimize for strength development.
Site Prep
Site Prep
As the largest asphalt paver in the U.S., we provide all the expertise to provide you with a tailored and optimized design, specific to your local needs and specifications. From materials, to design, to paving crew, we provide a full paving service for runways, aprons, taxiways and parking lots.
Asphalt Design
Asphalt Design
As the largest asphalt paver in the U.S., we provide all the expertise to provide you with a tailored and optimized design, specific to your local needs and specifications. From materials, to design, to paving crew, we provide a full paving service for runways, aprons, taxiways and parking lots.
Logistics and Onsite Support
Logistics and Onsite Support
With unrivaled scale across North America, Europe and Australia, supported by a large fleet of trucks, rail terminals and mobile batching plants, we design to meet your project timelines and ensure consistent quality.
Key airport capabilities
When timelines matter and complexity is high, you can rely on us as a partner with the experience to combine speed, resilience and precision. From integrated drainage systems and offsite concrete fabrication to advanced asphalt and concrete paving, site preparation and regional expertise, we ensure optimized performance and compliance across every project.
Drainage
We create integrated systems that capture and treat stormwater, glycol and other de-icing runoff, reducing the risk of flooding and improving local water quality.
Offsite Construction
Accelerate timelines, reduce costs, improve quality control and leverage the power of precast, lower-carbon concrete fabrication.
Hangars
Our specialized paving solutions arrive ready to install, complete with connected infrastructure such as electric vehicle charging, stormwater management and solar photovoltaic capabilities.
Regional Expertise
Our local expertise spans the US and Europe, with a deep understanding of local regulations and requirements. Our footprint and network, as well as the diversity of our local operating companies, ensures optimized delivery of materials and services, wherever your airport is located.
Site Preparation
Our construction services cover a wide range of site preparation needs including grading and base preparation, excavation and utility installation, as well as other ancillary services.
Shoreline Resilience
Protecting our people and infrastructure from natural events like storm surges or flooding.
One in three people in the world live on the coast. But as weather becomes more extreme, our shorelines are at risk. We’re working with governments to fortify these areas—from urban coastlines to rural riverbeds—protecting our shores and the people who depend on them.
Focus areas
Shoreline Armoring
Coastal Neighborhoods
Stormwater Management
Shoreline Armoring
Shoreline Armoring
We help you fortify coastlines through hard, soft and hybrid armoring. We design systems that can hold back tides, stem erosion and defend against floods while harnessing and protecting coastal ecosystems.
Coastal Neighborhoods
Coastal Neighborhoods
We build the infrastructure for homes and businesses designed to meet customer needs in shoreline locations. Besides hard, soft and hybrid armoring of the shoreline, a holistic solution for shoreline resiliency also considers integrated stormwater management systems, roads, bridges and other vital utility infrastructure.
Stormwater Management
Stormwater Management
We help capture, convey and defend against rainfall. We plan, engineer and build systems to collect and redirect stormwater. We purify it and reuse it, or release it back into the aquifers or ocean.
Key shoreline resilience capabilities
We design resilient coastal solutions that restore ecosystems and protect communities. From textured underwater plant walls and advanced waterflow modeling to lower-carbon concrete and tailored materials, our expertise spans engineering, design, and regional insight to meet your shoreline challenges.
Underwater Plant Walls
Welcome natural vegetation back to your coastal structure, with walls specifically textured to allow them to grow.
Waterflow Modeling
Predict and plan with the help of industry-leading hydraulics labs that can simulate the effects of tides and floods.
Lower-Carbon Concrete
We continue to innovate and develop lower-carbon materials that deliver on strength and performance.
Design and Engineering
Bring us your shoreline challenge, and we’ll design the shoreline armor or stormwater system to solve it.
Materials Design
We advise on, and develop specific solutions to your shoreline challenges.
Regional Expertise
Our locally-owned businesses bring insight on local geography, regulations and product.
Road projects and innovations
Seattle, WA, United States
Building an electrified light rail line across an existing floating bridge
Montreal, Canada
Creating Quebec’s first carbon-neutral infrastructure project
Brăila Bridge
Massive new bridge over the Danube
Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
A new surface for the home of British motorsport
Poland
Navigating mountains the and elements with Poland’s Zakopianka project
Water projects and innovations
Tampa, Florida, US
Finding innovative solutions to flooding in Florida
Nashville, Tennessee US
A smart solution to meet regulations
Airport projects and innovations
LaGuardia, NY
Breathing new life into LaGuardia Airport
New Jersey, US
Newark Airport Upgrades Support Growing Passenger Demand
Dublin, Ireland
Controlling the skies and enhancing the skyline at Dublin Airport
Shoreline projects and innovations
East River Park
Safeguarding New York from future flooding
Seattle Seawall
Built to withstand the immense pressure of the Pacific Ocean
Solutions that shape our surroundings
We work in every part of the built environment, reimagining and reinventing new ways to build, connect and improve our world.
End-to-End Expertise
Partner with a problem-solving team that applies engineering and innovation expertise to the most complex project across their full lifecycle.
Drive Efficiency, Ensure Quality
Make projects easy to manage and simplify the supply chain. Let us handle the details.
Locally-Owned. Globally-Enabled.
Combining our unmatched scale with our local expertise uniquely positions us to help you reduce risk, manage logistics and improve quality with solutions tailored to your specific challenges.
A Commitment to Safety
With decades of experience and a safety first mentality, we innovate our products and processes to make construction safer and simpler.