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.
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- natural sciences biological sciences synthetic biology
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H2020-EU.1.2. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
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(opens in new window) H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020
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00131 Roma
Italy
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