Demonstration and Implementation of an Innovative Nail-Laminated Timber (NLT) Foundation System for Housing
On average, over 35,000 new homes begin construction every year in Alberta, with concrete predominantly used for the foundations/basements of these buildings. Reducing embodied carbon has emerged recently as a vital new frontier in building decarbonisation. There is growing interests among leaders in architecture & design, manufacturing, and construction to use mass timber panels to…
Biological Co-fermentation of Carbon Dioxide and Methane to Malate
Industrial Microbes is developing a process to combine CO2 and natural gas into malate, a valuable organic compound used to manufacture biodegradable plastics and fibres. Malate is produced by natural enzymes inside living cells, similar to how alcohol is produced during beer brewing. In Industrial Microbes’ process, CO2 emissions from an oilsands operation or power…
Bio-sourced asphalt from the Canadian forest industry
Bio-Sourced Modified Asphalt Offers Emissions Reductions Approved for funding in ERA’s Food, Farming, and Forestry Challenge in 2020, FPInnovations designed a project to accelerate the commercialization of a new lignin-based asphalt and demonstrate its feasibility under Canadian conditions. By its completion in 2023, the project’s six commercial demonstrations developed the lignin-based asphalt to reach commercial…
Commercialization of Bio-based Sprayfoam
With funding from ERA, Sprayfoam Co. developed, tested and pre-commercialized a spray foam insulation product that incorporates renewable materials from the agricultural sector, instead of using GHG generating fossil fuels. This insulation will play a key role in increasing building envelope performance by reducing infiltration heat loss, energy consumption and GHG emissions. The goal is…
