Project Grant 24DG11062765119

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $6,000,000 Project Grant under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) to the Wood Products Council (WPC) to remove hurdles to wood utilization in commercial construction. The award began on Jan 15, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by Dec 31, 2028. WPC, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, will use the funding to provide technical expertise, design project support, and educational resources to...

This federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) aims to refine the design criteria for cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor systems. The $679,761 grant awarded to Villanova University in Pennsylvania on June 24, 2025, will examine the short- and long-term deflection behavior of 5-layer CLT panels, which will be tested to failure. This research seeks to improve the efficiency of CLT...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded C-Crete Technologies LLC a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The project aims to develop a low-cost, high-yield, and scalable process to mineralize carbon dioxide (CO2) into a specialized formulation of carbon-negative concrete. C-Crete Technologies will apply advanced synthesis, green chemistry, and standard concrete testing and scale-up...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $1,986,697 to William Marsh Rice University to develop an innovative cement production process using Flash Joule Heating (FJH). The project aims to revolutionize the cement industry, which currently accounts for 2-3% of global energy use and 9% of human-made CO2 emissions. The FJH process rapidly heats raw materials to extreme temperatures in seconds, enabling fast, energy-efficient...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $250,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to C-Crete Technologies LLC to support a research project titled "Reactive CO2 Capture and Conversion in Underutilized Waste Streams to Make Synthetic Aggregates for Concrete." The project aims to develop innovative carbon capture and utilization technologies that convert waste CO2 into synthetic aggregates for concrete manufacturing. The award will fund C-Crete Technologies' research...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $40,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) is supporting Furno Materials Inc. to commercialize its modular cement production technology in Chicago, IL. The key project goals are to: 1) replace at least 44% of raw materials with industrial waste (e.g., crushed concrete fines) to produce ordinary Portland cement, 2) implement an efficient...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $189,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Brimstone Commercial, LLC under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). Through this award, Brimstone will construct and operate a new plant to commercialize a deeply decarbonized process for producing ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and co-products, including supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) and smelter-grade alumina (SGA). The project will develop a transformative chemical-based process...

This $950,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at Arizona State University to develop carbon-neutral cement manufacturing technologies. The goal is to enable production of Portland cement and other lime-based cements in an energy-efficient and carbon-neutral manner through technological innovations, including a low-temperature process to decompose...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region awarded Olifant LLC a $643,000 Project Grant under the Wood Utilization Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 10.674). The grant will support advancing mass timber as a climate solution in three U.S. cities to scale up use and encourage new domestic manufacturing from August 8, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The Wood Utilization Assistance program aims to provide technical assistance regarding new wood products to effectively...

This National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate project grant of $1,920,892 awarded on September 1, 2021 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will fund research through August 31, 2025 to develop a low-temperature manufacturing process for calcium hydroxide from distributed waste sources. The goal is to make cement production more environmentally sustainable. The University of Illinois will be responsible for reactor design, process intensification modeling and overseeing progress...