The company, which was spun off in late 2019 from a UCLA research team led by civil engineer professor Gaurav Sant, has developed a process for injecting concrete with carbon dioxide emissions from power plants or other industrial facilities.
The idea is to sequester the carbon dioxide emissions into concrete that can then be sold to builders and other construction contractors. This process reduces the cost for cement, concrete, power generation and other industrial plant operators to comply with mandates to reduce carbon emissions.
CarbonBuilt’s approach has been to use low-cost hydrated lime as a base material for the manufacture of concrete, then inject carbon dioxide emissions from an industrial process to cure the concrete into usable form.
Carbon dioxide ends up permanently stored in the concrete, reducing emissions from the concrete manufacture process by 50% to 70%.