Slashing CO2Wood with muscles of steel.
Big Picture
Embodied carbon in the built environment represents 11% of energy-related CO₂ emissions globally, primarily driven by the use of concrete and steel. Increased focus on reducing embodied carbon is driving the increased use of lower-carbon products like cross-laminated timber. However, the resultant increase in demand for high-quality wood is leading to unsustainable harvesting practices.
How it Works
Woodoo has developed an augmented wood product that can replace a wide array of materials used in consumer and commercial buildings. Their patented process removes the lignin in wood through a passive, low-energy process and replaces it with bio-based or recycled resins, creating a strong, flexible, low-carbon material that can be used as a replacement for glass, leather, plastic, steel, or even concrete.
Unfair Advantage
Woodoo uses a platform manufacturing process to create a variety of end-use materials that can be deployed in a range of uses running the built-environment gamut. What’s more, their process lets them use low-grade, diseased, or damaged wood (which climate change will make abundant), allowing them to avoid looming supply shortfalls in high-grade lumber.
20
Times lower CO₂e
than concrete per unit of load capacity
TIMOTHÉE BOITOUZET CEO & FOUNDER
Tim is an architect with a background in material science who spent half a decade working under Nobel Prize-winning architects.
SERGE MOUANGUE SVP DEVELOPMENT
Serge was previously a Brand Strategy Director for Groupe Renault. He is also the Founder and Creative Director of WAFRICA.
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