Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The City of Vancouver is seeking innovative ideas that address low-carbon construction requirements of the future, focusing on low embodied carbon construction materials for buildings and low emission equipment on construction sites.
In 2019, Vancouver City Council declared a climate emergency, and set a goal of reducing embodied carbon from construction by 40% by 2030, compared to 2018.
Vancouver’s Embodied Carbon Strategy sets a vision for a healthy, equitable, circular, and carbon-positive construction economy. The City aims to take responsibility for carbon pollution created while extracting, manufacturing, assembling, replacing and disposing of building materials, such as concrete, metals, insulation. This means:
- Using materials more efficiently
- Reusing existing buildings and materials
- Building more from sustainably sourced wood and mass timber
- Using lower-carbon blends of concrete
- Powering construction sites with renewable energy instead of diesel fuel
- Using low-carbon insulation instead of spray foam, and putting less parking in buildings
Benefits
- Participation in a high-quality EU programme that seeks to streamline state-of-the-art technologies and sustainable solutions into the Canadian Market;
- Tailored delivery of technical assistance and business coaching to enable Joint Business Concepts (JBCs) between EU SMEs & Canadian Buyers.
- The opportunity to work directly with a Canadian buyer that is actively seeking innovative solutions.
Eligibility Criteria
- All Challenges are fully open to all EU companies who feel they can meet the Buyer Challenge Statement.
- To facilitate purposeful business collaborations between Canadian Buyers and EU Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and Small/Mid-Caps and Mature-Startups and Micro-Enterprises, that have a distinct positive low-carbon and circular economy environmental impact, are scalable, reflect a sound return on investment, and enable innovative technology transfer and business transactions.
Criteria
- The City is seeking low-cost, high impact solutions that help to reduce embodied carbon from construction. Solutions can include, but are not limited to, alternative construction materials, recycling technologies and low carbon construction equipment.
- The City of Vancouver is targeting companies with solutions that land between TRL 6-9 of the technology readiness scale (TRL), although it will consider low TRL solutions on a demonstration basis if they are especially novel.
- Where applicable, proponents should explain how their solutions meets safety and regulatory standards and provide a description of successful deployments.
- Provide CAPEX and OPEX details for the solution. The City of Vancouver prefers an investment payback/cost recovery within fewer than five years. However, it will consider five- to eight-year paybacks with additional due diligence.
- If applicable, proponents should explain coverage (i.e., how many installations will the solution need?), impact (i.e., how does the solution help Vancouver achieve its Climate Emergency Action Plan targets), reliability (i.e., how well will the solution perform in real-world environments?).
For more information, visit City of Vancouver.
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