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CConcrete Supply Chain Innovation with CO2 Upcycling

Robert Niven Founder & CEO

2 www.carboncure.com Simply Better Concrete

CChanging Market Landscape

  Global construction decline vs. green building rise   60% new construction will be green in 2015, up from 13% in 2008

  Green building mainstream in emerging and developed markets

  Persistent competition from “greener” materials   Concrete durability aligned with resilient construction

  14% gross CO2 reduction in cement emission intensity since 1990

  GHG intensity limiting growth within green building sector

  Easy wins behind us   SCM substitution, alternative fuels and thermal efficiencies realized

  Can Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) be >50% of the solution ???


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Green Differentiation

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Demand-Pull Marketing


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IIntegrated Supply Chain Innovation For example only…


FFilling the GHG Gap

Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Solutions…   Mix and building design   OPC replacement   Carbon capture and storage?   CO2 upcycling

Goals?

  -23% reduction (2050 Blue Map)

  Carbon neutral

  Regenerative concrete

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BBusiness Model Beyond Technology

Market Differentiation


CO2 Upcycling Technology



CCement Limestone

Heat (+) calcination

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CO2 upcycling in concrete

Reverse calcination

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CO2 permanently converted to mineral

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CO2 Upcycling in Concrete

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Company Innovation CO2 sequestration Commercially

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Various innovations are available or in development; ~$400M in CO2 upcycling invested this decade

EEmerging CO2 Upcycling Technologies


CCO2 Supply Today

$100 – 150 / tonne


WWhere There’s Cement There’s CO2

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Image: www.columbiamachine.com

  Material benefits:

  Strength, water absorption (testing efflorescence)

  Defer royalty and CO2 costs - nno significant premium

  ~15% avoided emissions CO2

  1 day retrofit install, low CAPEX

  Transferable to ready mix and precast

CarbonCure Masonry Technology


PPermanent Equipment

Bulk CO2 tank

Gas handling equipment

Telemetry and PLC instruments

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Market Roll-Out


MMarket Pull Strategy


MMaterial Transparency   495 known environmental

product labels

  Material transparency

emerging as common link

  Concrete competitive

advantage – not a threat

  EPD & HPD main

transparency tool

  CarbonCure – 1st issued EPD

in NA concrete products


SSpecification Rewards Specified in $3.5 billion construction projects

SSecured OOngoing


MMore Specification Rewards

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

Cathedral of Christ the Light Church, Oakland

NASA Ames Sustainability Base

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission headquarters

New San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

UC Davis Jess Jackson Sustainable Winery

1st RMC EPD


11Mt GHG reduction Water

Cement

Aggregates Admixture

CO2

Partners:

Host:

Current Project Team:

Stage 1 Approved last week SEEKING NEW PROJECT PARTNERS

Architects Builders Producers

Beyond CarbonCure: Alberta Grand Carbon Challenge


JJoin us Robert Niven Founder/ CEO [email protected] 1.902.442.4020 @CarbonCure

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