Project description
Turning buildings into carbon stores
Construction is a major source of carbon emissions because materials such as concrete, steel, and bricks are energy-intensive. Achieving a net-zero future depends on transforming buildings from carbon emitters into active carbon stores through the use of upcycled agricultural and forest by-products. The EIC-funded Elementic project aims to address this challenge. It transforms lignin into a durable carbon-ceramic material made from forest and agricultural side streams that would otherwise be burnt for energy. Each kilogram contains roughly 3 kilograms of atmospheric CO2. Used as lightweight, fire-resistant bricks, Elementic turns buildings themselves into carbon stores. There is enough in a typical home façade to offset the structure’s entire embedded carbon footprint.
Objective
Fifth Innovation Oy has pioneered Elementic - an innovative, carbon-ceramics material crafted from forest & agricultural side streams which are currently burnt for energy. Elementic valorizes lignin for the first time into a hard, structurally durable mono-material that stores approximately 3 kg of atmospheric CO2 for every 1 kg of material produced.
With applicability in the construction sector as bricks, Elementic represents the most significant generation shift of the fundamental brick technology since mass production. Elementic bricks are lightweight, but sturdy; weather resistant; fire retardant; insulating; VOC and plastic-free; are sourced locally and can be completely recycled and reused at the end of life.
Elementic is the next step in construction material sustainability, transforming buildings into carbon storages. Replacing an average detached household’s façade with Elementic is sufficient to negate the entire embedded CO2 footprint of the entire building.
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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33500 Tampere
Finland
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