Building our modern world requires a tremendous amount of water, and it may be shocking to many that most of the industrial use of water requires it to be potable water. As most of the world's population goes from rural to urban, we will require building projects that use a significant amount of water. What might be helpful is a building material that did not need to use salt water. As a matter of fact it would be great if that material could use waste materials from different industries and be cheaper than the conventional options.
We believe we may have found that material. ATI Composites is the Clean 15 clean technology 2010 winner.
The company's new mineral foam is a new class of building material that offers the advantages of concrete at lower weight, higher strength and much improved fire resistance.
The technology platform (series of mix designs and applications) permits the development of a range of products to meet a variety of applications from spray applied fire proofing for parking structures, to light weight curtain wall panels or fire separations for multi-family or multi-use commercial structures.
The wet slurry can be cast on-site or used on a manufacturing setting. Other enhancements include the potential to use waste materials such as mine tailings, agricultural waste fiber or even rice hulls to produce light weight structural insulating foam products that set quickly (2 to 4 hours) with suifficient strength be de-moulded and set aside for 24 hours before being shipped and installed. Desert sand and salt water can be combined with the binder to produce light weight aerated concrete shapes which are far more energy efficient than solid cast concrete or cinder block structures. Just imagine the potential impact on the emerging world....
See the Video Demonstration HERE
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