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Synthetic Biology for Architecture

Project description

A toolkit for beginners in building living houses

The increasing urbanisation in Europe is responsible for growing consumption of resources and production. Today, the construction industry must be revolutionised and use sustainable solutions. This was the reason why a former project, LIAR, under the EU FET programme, brought together architects, biologists, computing scientists and engineers to explore the possible utility of bacteria-laden bioreactor bricks in the building industry, to modify inner spaces and serve for other sustainable solutions. The EU-funded Synbio4Arch project aims to elaborate and present technologies designed in the frame of LIAR for a synthetic biology toolkit of ‘living architecture’. It will enable engineers and architects to leverage microbes to embed distributed biomanufacturing, on-site domestic waste treatment and CO2 capturing into buildings. The cloud-based application will sufficiently support practitioners with little expertise in molecular biology.

Objective

Synbio4Arch intends to leverage the foreground generated in the FET project LIAR to develop a synthetic biology toolkit for architecture. The envisaged technology will allow engineers and architects to leverage microbes to embed distributed biomanufacturing, on-site domestic waste treatment and CO2 capturing into buildings. The innovation will consist in a cloud-based application that allows architects and engineers to select microbial strains engineered with pre-made and validated synthetic metabolic pathways relevant for household wastewater management such as organic compound oxidation and inorganic phosphate recycling. The innovation will allow practitioners in the construction field (such as engineers and architects) with little expertise in molecular biology to access the power of synthetic biology. Toward this aim, this launchpad proposal aims to assess regulatory barrier and develop a commercialization plan to exploit Explora’s proprietary doulix platform developed within the framework of the LIAR project.

Call for proposal

H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-03

Coordinator

EXPLORA SRL
Net EU contribution
€ 100 000,00
Address
Via Giacomo Peroni 386
00131 Roma
Italy

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes
Region
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 100 000,00