EPA SBIR Sustainable Materials Technologies Webinar

United States

EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently funded seven research projects for U.S. small businesses to help develop and commercialize innovative sustainable materials technologies. Please join us for this webinar to learn more about these new technologies. .

Each company (listed below) will give a short presentation on the design, application and impact of their technology and discuss progress toward making these innovations available in the marketplace. There will be time for the companies to answer questions about these new technologies.

• Verdant Structural Engineers (Berkeley, California): Creating straw structural insulated panel (SIP) alternatives for homes and buildings to improve energy efficiency and have reduced embodied impacts. This technology can be used by building owners, developers and designers to lower carbon emissions, toxicity, and end-of-life waste associated with their structures. (PI: Anthony Dente)
• IsoTruss Inc. (Provo, Utah): Developing a reinforced concrete foundation for telecommunications towers to increase resiliency to natural disasters. This innovation increases product lifetime while decreasing associated construction time and maintenance costs. (PI: David Jensen)
• Rheaply, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois): Utilizing a novel software technology to empower material reuse and embodied carbon reporting in the built environment. With this innovation, construction stakeholders can request and exchange reclaimed building materials and receive estimated embodied carbon savings related to each transaction. (PI: CeCe Smith)
• Cinterest LLC (East Rochester, New York): Developing a low embodied carbon wallboard made with biochar. This innovation serves as an above ground carbon sink and offers enhanced insulation, soundproofing and humidity control compared to current drywall options. (PI: Kathleen Draper)
• KLAW Industries LLC (Binghamton, New York): Creating a process to reuse waste glass for high performance, low carbon concrete. This novel material is lower cost, significantly less carbon-intensive, and stronger than typical cement. (PI: Jacob Kumpon)
• Ecotune, Inc. (Irvine, California): Developing a fully compostable packaging film made from renewable resources. This innovative film is an ideal candidate for food packaging and utilizes green chemistry and non-toxic production processes. (PI: Ella Csuka)
• USEFULL Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts): Pilot testing a tech-enabled circular economy solution designed to eliminate single-use food and beverage products. This innovation utilizes tech-enable returnable containers alongside a mobile app to allow corporations, colleges, and closed loop communities to generate less waste. (PI: Alison Rogers)