\u201cOur goal is to impact. It\u2019s a global goal\u2026We wanted to do what had never been done before, to push the boundaries. And instead of being \u2018less bad,\u2019 we wanted to completely redo it\u2013the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n
An innovative North Carolina start-up is revolutionising the process of traditional brick clay production – manufacturing bricks without the use of heat or clay. Their new inspired process not only results in zero carbon emissions to create its bricks making it a truly green processing technology.<\/p>\n
So how does it work and what are its goals?<\/p>\n
The team at\u00a0bioMASON develops their bricks and masonry from scratch without the need of any heat application. While existing brick production requires several days and the heating of clay in kilns surplus of 2,000 degrees \u2014 releasing huge amounts of carbon emissions into the atmosphere \u2014 bioMASON instead injects sand with micro-organisms to alternatively initiate this process. The revised process takes four days and, once completed, the resulting bricks are solid enough for use in applications ranging from the building of homes to large-scale construction projects.<\/p>\n
Co-founded by Ginger Krieg Dosier (\u00a0@sandlab\u00a0)\u00a0and her husband Michael, the motivation behind\u00a0bioMASON was to find an alternative to the 8% of global carbon emissions presently attributed to the traditional process of brick production (Statistics: EPA).<\/p>\n
Co-founder Dosier explains; \u201cOur goal is to impact. It\u2019s a global goal\u2026We wanted to do what had never been done before, to push the boundaries. And instead of being \u2018less bad,\u2019 we wanted to completely redo it\u2013the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Committed to finding new and meaningful ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in brick production, Dosier saw an opportunity to improve on the brick process\u2019 global impact;\u00a0\u201cI really wanted to pursue a different approach to how materials were made\u2026It just didn\u2019t seem right for us to essentially extract material from the ground and then fire it with quite a large amount of fossil fuel just to make a hard product.\u201d<\/p>\n
The inspiration behind the BioMason (@bioMASON) process?<\/p>\n
As an architecture graduate, Dosier was working for an architectural firm in 2005 when she was tasked by her employers to explore green alternative composites for building materials. After prolonged investigation, Dosier was shocked when her searches turned up no matches to the brief. \u201cThat kind of stuck with me for a little while,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n
Consulting her own background knowledge, Dosier wondered if coral might hold the answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked at how coral was able to make these incredible structural formations that could withstand water and erosion and began really researching how it was able to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dosier approached scientists at\u00a0Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and asked if they believed such a process could be used to make bricks. It could be done, they said. It\u2019s just that no one had ever tried it before.<\/p>\n
Convinced of its value, Dosier then assembled a team of employees that today includes biologists, architects, engineers, and experts in fermentation to create the\u00a0bioMASON process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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