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    Reinventing Resilience: Sustainable Design for a Changing Climate

    June 24, 2025
    Can materials innovation help protect communities from wildfires—and protect the planet at the same time? Born from personal experience and engineered for Tier 15 & Tier 22 performance, Oldcastle Infrastructure’s Duralite® enclosures are reshaping the future of resilient infrastructure—lightweight, sustainable, and built to withstand fire. Dive into the story of how material science, environmental responsibility, and urgent climate realities converge in one groundbreaking product.

    Inspired by firsthand experiences with devastating wildfires in Oregon, the article shares the story behind the creation of Duralite®—a composite enclosure engineered for resilience against flame and heat. Duralite’s material composition, rigorous flame-spread and heat-protection testing, and shift to halogen-free, phosphorus-based flame retardants improve human and environmental safety. By using recycled plastics, Duralite not only matches polymer concrete’s Tier 15 & Tier 22 strength, but its lighter weight also improves jobsite safety with a circular production model to minimize waste. For Oldcastle Infrastructure, sustainability is not a marketing checkbox, but a personal and professional responsibility. Duralite represents Oldcastle Infrastructure’s commitment to safer, more resilient infrastructure in a world increasingly challenged by climate change.

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