Sustainable development has a vital significance and importance to the performance of all our activities and the companies themselves. The construction industry addresses all stages of a structure or building, from production, transportation and placement of materials to design, construction, operation, demolition and recycling. In the Readymix concrete industry, some of the main concerns are to ensure that the product is sustainable and to establish which product may be classified as green, which in turn constitutes a capital contribution to efforts to achieve a sustainable construction. Currently, there is no approved methodology or criteria for the classification of green products. This article proposes a methodology to classify sustainable concretes according to various factors and criteria that range from the exploitation of the material until its incorporation into the construction process.
