RBC Disruptors - Concrete: An unlikely hero in the climate crisis

August 25, 2020 | Brian Moore


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In this episode, host John Stackhouse talks with Rob Niven and Jennifer Wagner of CarbonCure, a Halifax-based company that’s building technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere and inject it into concrete.

RBC Disruptors Podcast

The world is on track to add as many people to cities in the next 40 years as we have in the last 40 centuries. Those new buildings and roads will require a lot of concrete, which historically was an economically and environmentally inefficient building material. However, new innovators are leveraging technology to tackle both of those problems. In this episode, host John Stackhouse talks with Rob Niven and Jennifer Wagner of CarbonCure, a Halifax-based company that’s building technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere and inject it into concrete, making it both more environmentally friendly and stronger.

 

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