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| Colorado State University | jason quinn | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Expert in sustainability including life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis. Extensive experience in foundational model development to accurately capture technology performance and coupling with life cycle inventory and economic data for sustainability assessment. Results are used to focus research and development through identifying performance targets to meet sustainability targets. |
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| UbiQD | Michael Burrows | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| UbiQD is an expert in solar windows. We produce prototype solar windows based on luminescent solar concentrator design with edge mounted solar cells. We are producing solar window prototypes up to 1m2 at our facility in New Mexico and are limited by practical considerations of handling large pieces of glass outside of a glass or fully operational window factory.
UbiQD has a defined alpha window product including the bill of materials and specifications and is working towards a beta electronic controller.
In addition to the window and electronics, UbiQD are experienced in 1) solar window assembly including spacers, sealants, glass selections, and low-e coatings; 2) Luminescent solar concentrator processing; 3) UV-cure and thermoplastic interlayer nanocomposite formulation and compounding, 4) Quantum dot synthesis; 5) Basic photovoltaic performance testing including efficiency and quantum yield.
UbiQD is also interested and working in Agrivoltaics and controlled environment agriculture (optimizing sunlight for growing plants in a greenhouse). |
Website: ubiqd.com
Email: mike@ubiqd.com
Phone: 505-310-6776
Address: 134 Eastgate Drive, Los Alamos, NM, 87544, United States
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| Danfoss Climate Solutions | Carolyn Ross | |
Large Business
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Building Efficiency
| Danfoss Climate Solution 1. Danfoss Climate Solutions has 34 factories located in 15 countries, having over 10,530 employees. 2. Danfoss firmly holds the number two market position in the climate solutions sector. Climate Solutions offers industrial, retail, and residential heating and cooling solutions, including district heating, air conditioning, and residential heating and cooling. Compressors, sensors, heat exchangers, smart heating, electric heating, and energy metering are some of our current product offerings. 3. Thermal management for electric vehicles and the migration of mechanical thermal actuators to EVs are two future trends we are interested in at Danfoss in Climate Solutions. We are also exploring motor and drive platforms, as well as oil-free turbomachinery. Energy harvesting sensors and digital value add in the form of services and tools are also of interest to us. 4. We collaborate with customers to develop specific solutions for their use cases. Customers and startup partners can test components in Danfoss’ Application Development Centers, also called ADCs. Climate Solutions ADCs provide refrigeration and air conditioning test facilities for supermarket refrigeration, display cases, drink dispensers, rooftop units, and other application areas. 5. Climate Solutions has Application Centers in the United States, Europe, and China. |
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| ASHKII, LLC | J Linlor | |
Indian/Native American Tribal Government
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Other Energy Technologies
| EDWOSB Native American business experts in cybersecurity for compliance with CMMCv2 and DFARS 252.204-7021.
With 20+ years of cyber & hacking experience and active security clearances, we work nationwide to secure current networks from hacking or data exfiltration, and we provide a secure environment for email and file sharing of CUI and sensitive information.
We also provide EVMS and project management personnel to assist with deliverables tracking and logistics. |
| NV |
| KieranTimberlake | Billie Faircloth | |
Large Business
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Building Efficiency
| KieranTimberlake is an award-winning, full-service architecture and planning firm focused on high-performance, sustainable architecture. Our team of 100 professionals in Philadelphia, PA includes a full-time, transdisciplinary research group with backgrounds in fields like industrial ecology, chemistry, physics, carbon accounting, economics, and materials engineering. With an ISO-certified process for Research, Design, and Development (RDD), we are committed to driving innovations in the Building Technology sector.
Our portfolio of projects for private and institutional clients has established KT as a leader in integrating sustainable technologies to balance whole life carbon – embodied and operational – with the realities of performance criteria, constructability, and budget. In pursuit of these goals, we have developed and commercialized cutting-edge workflows and tools for design-integrated LCA processes, including LCI and EPD data integration into the design process.
KieranTimberlake, and our subsidiary KT Innovations, also has a proven track record of identifying gaps in the AEC value chain and building teams to develop the right technologies to fill those gaps. For example:
1) To address embodied carbon and precision for operational carbon reduction, we pioneered the application of automotive manufacturing techniques to architecture, including chunking and the deployment of prefabricated cartridges.
2) To address conservation of resources and embodied carbon, we proved the efficiency of design for disassembly paired with prefabrication in the Loblolly House and created a prefabricated housing line, OpenHome, to address total carbon neutrality.
3) To address drawing-down carbon, we developed Tally®, the first BIM-integrated Life Cycle Assessment Tool, now used throughout the industry to meet embodied carbon goals.
Whether we’re designing new buildings, developing new technologies, or challenging what the built environment can be, our work is infused with discovery, imagination, engagement, exploration, research, and analysis.
Areas of Technical Expertise: Architectural design, detailing and fabrication, sustainable design, off-site fabrication, life cycle assessment (LCA), building information modeling (BIM), building energy modeling (BEM), total carbon analysis, performance monitoring, analysis, and verification, bespoke modeling and computation, applications development including front end, back end, and data management. |
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| Texas A&M University | Manish Dixit | |
Academic
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Building Efficiency
| Our research focuses on assessing and optimizing embodied and operational impacts of buildings using a cradle-to-cradle approach. Our focus has been on developing dynamic LCA frameworks that allow not just quantifying and optimizing life cycle energy use and carbon emissions but also analyzing interdependencies of different embodied and operational impact components to facilitate net carbon negative design solutions. We are also creating life cycle carbon accounting frameworks for current as well as future climate change scenarios to assess if a net carbon negative building design remains carbon negative in future scenarios. These frameworks are currently being integrated into design and construction tools such as Autodesk Revit and Rhinoceros. Our group has also been developing multi-objective optimization (MOO) and machine learning algorithms to predict operational and embodied energy and carbon performance of buildings based on limited information. Another area of research we are targeting is the large-scale 3D printing or robotic construction of buildings using renewable materials with high sequestered carbon content. For the upcoming FOA, we propose and plan to explore: (1) developing a renewable material for constructing buildings to sequester atmospheric carbon; (2) analyzing and reaching the net carbon negative status using a computational dynamic LCA framework; (3) constructing prototypes for building elements and an entire residential structure to validate net carbon negative status; and (4) verifying through rigorous modeling if the prototype remain carbon negative in future climate change scenarios. |
| TX |
| The University of Melbourne | Robert Crawford | |
Academic
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Building Efficiency
| Dr Robert Crawford has broad research expertise and interest in the built environment, sustainability, life cycle assessment and renewable energy. His research focuses on building environmental assessment, with a particular emphasis on sustainable resource use, the environmentally appropriate selection of materials and sustainable building design and feasibility.
This work has involved improving life cycle assessment methodologies; performing extensive embodied energy/water/emissions assessments of buildings, their components and renewable energy systems; and validation of life cycle assessment methodologies. He is an expert in modelling indirect (embodied) environmental impacts. Robert teaches in the areas of life cycle assessment, supply chain management and prefabrication in construction. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Melbourne Energy Institute and a Member of the Australian Government's Expert Panel on Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment.
The contribution of Robert’s work to the fields of construction and environmental assessment has been demonstrated and acknowledged by various awards. He has also acted as a researcher, consultant and adviser to several State Government departments, research and professional organisations.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Crawford3 |
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| Pennsylvania State University | Juan Pablo Gevaudan | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Juan Pablo Gevaudan, Ph.D., is a modern cement chemist that focuses on the investigation of the degradation science and synthesis of novel, low-CO2 cementitious material technologies. He is the PI of the Responsive and Adaptive Infrastructure Materials (Re-AIM) research team, which is a highly diverse composed of four underrepresented minority students (out of a total of five students) spanning the disciplines of Civil, Architectural, and Mechanical Engineering as well as Material Science. He is the recipient of a globally prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research fellowship centered on the investigation of the passivate layer formation and breakdown mechanisms of modern concrete technologies. Last year, he received the 2020 Best Paper Award from the American Ceramic Society for his findings on innovative synthesis routes of atomically controlled cementitious materials. This ground-breaking research constitutes the evidence-based foundation for this proposal as well as the recent discovery of a new class of magnesium-based cementitious materials with the unique potential to advance the national nuclear waste infrastructure. He holds two filed patents for durability engineering of alkali-activated cementitious materials. His cutting-edge research innovations have resulted in the generation of $1.1M in research funding during the current 2021-2022 academic year. |
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| OPAL Build | Addison Godine | |
Small Business
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Building Efficiency
| OPAL Build is a Madison, Maine-based building technology startup company. Our mission is to develop the world’s first scalable all-wood building panel solution for use in building retrofits and new construction. Our vision is of “Buildings that Improve our World.” We arrive at the solution of an all-wood, monolithic composite, subtractive-process-based panelized system after two decades of design-build experience as an architecture and contracting firm creating some of the most energy-efficient buildings in New England. Our panels comprise as their primary components CLT, wood-fiber insulation, and high-performance windows and doors. |
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| Human Powered Future PLLC | Bradley Layton PhD PE | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Dr. Layton has been working in renewable energy and renewable energy technologies for over 20 years in academia and private industry across numerous fields including transportation, solar, wind, biomass, hydrogen, rare earth element recovery from coal ash, plastics, zero waste, carbon-negative systems, smart contracts, energy storage, tribal energy development, electronics manufacturing, biomedical engineering, forensic engineering, grant writing, grant reporting, project management, technical training. He has been a PI and Co-PI on dozens of federally-funded an privately funded projects and is a licensed professional engineer in several states. |
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| redhouse | Christopher Maurer | |
Individual
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Building Efficiency
| redhouse studio is developing bioterial based technologies all over the world with leading researchers and even off planet with NASA through the NIAC program. redhouse has recycled building using their biocycler process (www.biocycler.org) which converts construction and demolition waste into new materials using living organisms to bind the waste and make biocomposites that are strong and insulative. In Namibia, redhouse is working with MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms to upcycle waste biomass from Namibia's "encroacher bush" into food and building materials in their demonstration project called, BioHab (www.bio-hab.org) All of these processes sequester carbon in the form of biomass into building materials and have the added benefit of using waste resources instead of virgin wood or other extracted, less renewable, resources. Principal Investigator and Architect, Christopher Maurer founded redhouse in 2014. He has an architecture studio and a 5,000sf workshop/lab in Cleveland, Ohio. Chris has a Master's Degree in Architecture M. Arch from Kent State University, and has lived and worked in North America, Europe and all over Africa. |
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| Stanford University | Michael Lepech | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Our team has developed fundamental engineering design concepts, models, and tools that are tightly integrated with quantitative sustainability assessment and service life modeling across length scales, from material scales to system scales, and throughout the early design, project engineering, construction, and operation life cycle phases of constructed facilities. Our sustainable design examples include sustainable high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs), fiber-reinforced polymer composites (FRPCs), and Bio polymer-bound Soil Composites (BSCs). Interests: Carbon Negative Construction Materials, Sustainability, Carbon removal and storage, Green Material, LCA... Capabilities: We have a solid collaborative team that integrates all necessary efforts in energy, chemistry, material, design, manufacturing, and life cycle assessment (LCA) through Stanford University. |
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| Southwest Research Institute | Kevin Supak | |
Non-Profit
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Other Energy Technologies
| Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) is an independent, non-profit, commercial research company with over 2,700 employees specializing in technology evaluation and development for government and commercial clients. SwRI’s unbiased position and broad industry experience allow for solutions to be developed using diverse disciplines including chemistry, space sciences, nondestructive evaluation, automation, engine design, mechanical engineering, electronics, and more. SwRI can assemble a multidisciplinary team of experts required by any technical project, giving SwRI a teaming flexibility difficult to find at other R&D organizations.
Related to this FOA, SwRI has diverse expertise in fluids, heat transfer, mechanical design, carbon capture, sequestration and conversion, structural engineering, and more that can be applied to designing buildings and structures for carbon efficiency and evaluating technologies to reduce their carbon footprint. Please reach out to learn more about how SwRI’s diverse experience can support your technology development and evaluation. |
Website: swri.org
Email: ksupak@swri.org
Phone: 210-522-2350
Address: 6220 Culebra Rd., San Antonio, TX, 78238, United States
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| Danfoss | Carolyn Ross | |
Large Business
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Building Efficiency
| 1. Danfoss Climate Solutions has 34 factories located in 15 countries, having over 10,530 employees. 2. Danfoss firmly holds the number two market position in the climate solutions sector. Climate Solutions offers industrial, retail, and residential heating and cooling solutions, including district heating, air conditioning, and residential heating and cooling. Compressors, sensors, heat exchangers, smart heating, electric heating, and energy metering are some of our current product offerings. 3. Thermal management for electric vehicles and the migration of mechanical thermal actuators to EVs are two future trends we are interested in at Danfoss in Climate Solutions. We are also exploring motor and drive platforms, as well as oil-free turbomachinery. Energy harvesting sensors and digital value add in the form of services and tools are also of interest to us. 4. We collaborate with customers to develop specific solutions for their use cases. Customers and startup partners can test components in Danfoss’ Application Development Centers, also called ADCs. Climate Solutions ADCs provide refrigeration and air conditioning test facilities for supermarket refrigeration, display cases, drink dispensers, rooftop units, and other application areas. 5. Climate Solutions has Application Centers in the United States, Europe, and China. |
| MA |
| ZERO | Grant Gunnison | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| We have developed software that can design a retrofit solution for an existing building to eliminate its emissions. We provide actionable information to homeowners including: accurate costs, operational carbon impacts, and specific materials and equipment. We are looking to expand the capability of our system to also include embodied carbon of materials and would like to partner with an expert in this field that can help us incorporate this information and analysis into our system. |
| MA |
| Community Energy Labs | Tanya A Barham | |
Small Business
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Building Efficiency
| At Community Energy Labs we are bringing to market the first truly scalable grid-interactive AI-powered clean building control system - key to 24/7 net-zero carbon buildings. Our mission is to affordably enable communities’ building decarbonization goals by 2030. CEL's core AI-powered clean building control platform was a regional winner of CleanTech Open's 2020 international accelerator, an overall winner in the 2020 Madrona Venture Labs Go Vertical challenge, a 2021 impel+ building innovator, EPRI Incubate Energy 2021 cohort member and 2021 US Department of Energy SBIR awardee.
Our Technology Serves People Washington - stringent commercial building standards (HB 1257) recently became law. Cities like Seattle and all over California are banning gas in municipal buildings. Without better pricing and Grid-Interactive Efficient Building (GEB) approaches, building energy use and misaligned peaks could increase which is why the California Energy Commission (CEC) is also planning to launch dynamic electric rates by 2024. We aim to field harden and advance GEB solutions for building owners who struggle to affordably address these increasingly complex commercial energy prices and grid constraints.
CEL provides an IoT & Software as a Service control platform for building operators who find it complex, frustrating and very expensive to meet new building energy goals and prices. We install wireless sensors, equipment controllers, and use cloud-based software powered by machine learning to autonomously predict and efficiently control how and when new existing building equipment is operating so that more of it is powered by clean or affordable energy. In doing so we offer building owners higher levels of energy savings, lower carbon and up-front cost, and faster returns than competitors.
Our goals: (1) Focus on underserved building types and customers representing a scalable segment of the market; (2) Implement technical approaches to widespread load flexibility; (3) Deploy service models that incorporate customer priorities, constraints, and feedback.
Our objectives: (1) Deliver customer energy savings (5-25%) (2) Reduce peak demand (20-40%); (3) Improve occupant comfort, air quality (CO2) and load shape alignment to renewable availability compared to a measured baseline; (4) Deploy technologies and business models that are affordable, replicable, can stimulate job growth, and that can be deployed at scale in existing buildings. |
| OR |
| Captis Aire LLC | Kim K Tutin | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| MISSION: To provide an energy efficient industrial air emissions control technology for use in controlling emissions from wood products manufacturing. This includes wood products used to build buildings including oriented strand board (OSB), plywood, lumber, etc.
Our Fluidized Bed Concentrator (FBC) uses activated carbon to efficiently adsorb and recover emissions from waste industrial process exhaust streams such as dryign wood. The FBC’s process intensification characteristics enable 1) Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions (reduced carbon intensity), 2) Reduced Energy Usage, 3) Reduced Operating Costs, and 4) Recovery of Valuable Organics.
SEEKING: To support initiatives in the following categories: 1) Technologies that improve the energy efficiency of or reduce emissions from producing wood products for buldings. 2) Technologies that enable energy-efficient manufacturing capabilities or methods or that use advanced manufacturing to enable new energy technologies. 3) Technologies that improve the energy efficiency of industrial processes which are not covered by other subcategories 4) Bioenergy Supply Chain: Technologies critical to supply chain development, such as organic feedstock collection from gaseous waste streams.
BACKGROUND: Team has already commercialized the air emissions control technology at over 60 sites worldwide including automotive and electronics manufacturing.
CAPABILTIES: Industrial air emissions control technology for wood products used to build buildings.
PERSONNEL HAVE EXTENSIVE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE IN: • Emissions equipment system design, fabrication, installation, operations • System controls, instrumentation, electrical systems.
TEAM CREDENTIALS INCLUDE: • University of Maryland. Air Force. Electronic Systems Technology Degree. • Siena College, Loudonville, NY BS Pre-med Biology & Chemistry. Advanced Analytical Chemistry & Electrical Engineering • Missouri Science & Technology. BS Mechanical Engineering Manufacturing and Energy Conservation. Purdue, Indiana. MS of Industrial Operations, Engineering & Business. • University of MN. Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry. MBA in Technology & Engineering Management. 3.91 GPA |
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| ProMotion Energies LLC | Derek DiMaso | |
Individual
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Seeking groundbreaking disruptive innovation with existing technology - funding for Energy, Healthcare. The ability is easy, the funding is the bottleneck
Health fanatic, green mind, Registered Nurse (BSN), Certified Personal Trainer NCSF, Physics, Chemistry BLOCKCHAIN integration.
Self-made wealth, ability to survey, observe, acknowledge, apply for adaption with optimal outcomes. motivational interviewing permit ability to collect the best possible yield that result from individual clients, let alone entire ecosystems in this application which are less subjective and fickle compared to a singular individual’s capabilities. |
| NY |
| ProMotion Energies LLC | Derek DiMaso | |
Individual
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Seeking groundbreaking disruptive innovation with existing technology - funding for Energy, Healthcare. The ability is easy, the funding is the bottleneck
Health fanatic, green mind, Registered Nurse (BSN), Certified Personal Trainer NCSF, Physics, Chemistry BLOCKCHAIN integration.
Self-made wealth, ability to survey, observe, acknowledge, apply for adaption with optimal outcomes. motivational interviewing permit ability to collect the best possible yield that result from individual clients, let alone entire ecosystems in this application which are less subjective and fickle compared to a singular individual’s capabilities. |
| NY |
| SENAI CIMATEC | Rodrigo Cardoso Orestes | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| The Manufacturing and Technology Integrated Campus SENAI CIMATEC was inaugurated in March of 2002, and it is one of the most advanced centers for education, technology and innovation in the country. Supported by a staff of over 800 members, it hosts a Technical School, a Higher Education School and a Technology Center, all cooperating in a four-building structure of more than 35.000m². Pushing the limits of its infrastructure, SENAI CIMATEC has launched in 2019 an industrial and technological park located inside Camaçari Industrial Complex. The CIMATEC Park features a technological and industrial complex that combines a Science Park, a Technological Park and a Business Park, integrated in an Eco Park of 4 million m². Currently offering a number of Undergraduate degrees in engineering, and a series of Graduate programs, including lato sensu (specializations and MBAs) and stricto sensu (master’s and doctoral degrees), SENAI CIMATEC prides itself on delivering highly qualified professionals to the various industrial sectors, supporting innovation and problem-solution, having earned the recognition of Brazilian Ministry of Education as the top engineering school in the North/Northeast Regions of Brazil for the past three years. With 44 areas of competence and extensive experience in the execution of projects of various magnitudes and complexities, SENAI CIMATEC carries out Research, Development & Innovation (RD&I) in partnerships with national and international companies and institutions already totaling more than R$500 million in project resources and high intellectual property indicators, with more than 134 patents registered. Having access to funding sources such as FAPESB, Informatics Law and SENAI SESI Innovation Fund, we operate projects of high national and international impact and support companies from different regions, maintaining a network of collaborators that include prominent universities and organizations from all over the world. Some of our partners include MCKinsey&Company, NVIDIA, Atos, HP, Intel, Rockwell Automation, DFKI, Embraer, Shell, Ford, RWTH Aachen University, University of Bremen, Braskem, University of Virginia, MIT, and others. |
| ZZ |
| The Neutral Project, LLC | Nathan Helbach | |
Large Business
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Building Efficiency
| The Neutral Project was created to redefine conventional development strategies, to mitigate the reprehensible damage caused by the built environment. Despite the evidence pointing to the built environment’s reality of polluting our ecosystem exponentially for decades, conventional developers continue employing harmful construction methods. To mitigate and cease the perpetual reprehensible damage, we must evolve one of the largest contributing industries – Real Estate Development. Our mission is to leave this cosmos better than when we found it by creating a novel sustainable development company to revitalize our built environment.
Our goal is to create Carbon Neutral buildings, and we are in the process of developing two towers in MAdsino and Milwaukee Wisconsin using Mass timber as our structural system. We believe that our goals align with the FOA: New Program in Carbon Negative Buildings, and would love to be a part of the team. |
| WI |
| Siemens Corporation, Technology | Keryl Cosenzo | |
Large Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Siemens Corporation, Technology (T), located in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of several world-class research and development centers within Siemens. Our hundreds of research scientists and software engineers provide innovative technical solutions to the global family of Siemens’ businesses. We also work closely with Siemens’ customers, government agencies, universities, and various other organizations to execute fundamental and applied research projects across all of Siemens’ core technology fields.
Siemens Corporation, Technology develops integrated computational design and performance engineering tools to understand the optimal design, operation and performance forecasts for various application domains (e.g. infrastructure, energy, healthcare). T develops tools and methodologies through the transformative power of simulation and machine learning for product and process engineering along the entire value chain of advanced production systems. T is part of the research team behind the industry-leading Siemens NX system for CAD/M/E and has extensive experience in developing innovative technologies for modeling and simulation, analysis and optimization of complex systems, design for additive manufacturing, generative design, parametric and topology optimization (e.g. for large structures), meta-material design, design space construction/exploration, multi-physics and multi-scale simulation, manufacturing process simulation, and digital twin. |
| NJ |
| redhouse | Christopher Maurer | |
Individual
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Building Efficiency
| redhouse studio is developing bioterial based technologies all over the world with leading researchers and even off planet with NASA through the NIAC program. redhouse has recycled building using their biocycler process (www.biocycler.org) which converts construction and demolition waste into new materials using living organisms to bind the waste and make biocomposites that are strong and insulative. In Namibia, redhouse is working with MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms to upcycle waste biomass from Namibia's "encroacher bush" into food and building materials in their demonstration project called, BioHab (www.bio-hab.org) All of these processes sequester carbon in the form of biomass into building materials and have the added benefit of using waste resources instead of virgin wood or other extracted, less renewable, resources. Principal Investigator and Architect, Christopher Maurer founded redhouse in 2014. He has an architecture studio and a 5,000sf workshop/lab in Cleveland, Ohio. Chris has a Master's Degree in Architecture M. Arch from Kent State University, and has lived and worked in North America, Europe and all over Africa. |
| OH |
| Misty Mountain LLC dba Natural Exteriors | Misty Hancock | |
Individual
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Other Energy Technologies
| I have been in the construction industry for almost 30 years now. I am currently a masonry contractor and I have access to a product that will help with ZERO NET building envelopes. Both in Retrofitting and New Construction. I would like to introduce the product to the team. I do not have much going on with my website currently. |
| AZ |
| Colorado Earth LLC | Lisa Morey | |
Small Business
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Building Efficiency
| Colorado Earth, Inc. (CO Earth) is presently commercializing low embodied carbon compressed earth blocks (CEBs) for building construction. Compressed earth blocks (CEBs) are one of the most widespread earthen building materials and are inherently applicable in a global market enabling adoption, but also creation of manufacturing jobs across diverse and varied markets. CEBs are a modern descendent of the molded adobe block. The compaction of earth improves the quality and performance of the blocks but also promotes several environmental, social, and economic benefits. CEBs are non-fired and are rather air-dried to achieve their strength. The use of earthen building elements could result in reducing the potential environmental impacts by about 50% when compared to the use of conventional building elements.
CEBs also provide a versatile platform to explore the incorporation of a wide variety of materials in an already environmentally friendly and low-carbon manufacturing product to enhance performance. Early demonstrations of CEB manufacturing have been initiated at CO Earth’s facility in Golden, CO, shown in Figure 1 and have included incorporation of both biological (hemp) and reclaimed building materials waste (gypsum). |
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