Technology Readiness of bio-based construction materials

Defossilisation of the Construction sector is a chance to upgrade existing building stock and new builds with bio-based materials that benefit the health and wellbeing of society alongside planetary health. New, sustainable biogenic chemicals and materials promise to turn building stocks into an asset that sequesters GHG from the atmosphere, rather than contributing to the 25% of UK emissions associated with the built environment. The Biorenewables Development Centre is a leading UK translation and scale-up centre, supporting customers to develop technologies from the lab bench through commercialisation. This seminar will explore the future of bio-based construction materials through innovation case studies, showcasing technologies at various stages of maturity.

Speaker Bio: Mark is Director of the Biorenewables Development Centre, an open-access process development and scale-up organisation providing expertise to accelerate commercialisation of biobased processes and products. BDC’s capabilities span feedstock identification and preprocessing through to upstream chemical and biological processing, with scale-matched product purification technologies, typically at 1-100kg scale. Mark has over twenty years’ experience in research and innovation working in and for business and academia. He is a member of the UK Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum (IBLF) and Co-founder of the UK Alliance for Sustainable Chemicals & Materials. He is co-author of the IBLF National Industrial Biotechnology Strategy to 2030. He is a passionate advocate for Engineering Biology as the key driver to develop novel Industrial Biotechnology processes and products at the scale required for the transition to a prosperous and sustainable, defossilised economy.

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