Adaptavate has just released the testing done to date on its wallboard Breathaboard, confirming that it hits, and in some cases exceeds the wallboard industry standards. Developed over the last ten years with patented technology, it is a drop-in solution to reduce CO2 emissions and waste in the wallboard market and the built environment.
The technology intends to make low-carbon, carbon storing, and carbon-negative building products available to all. The company’s first solution, Breathaboard, focuses on the wallboard category, and the news today confirms its potential to go mainstream. Adaptavate is already trialling the product across UK building sites and is in talks with global and regional plasterboard manufacturers about deploying its low-carbon technology and plasterboard alternative across the globe.
Tom Robinson, founder and CEO at Adaptavate said: “This milestone is a result of the team’s hard work, and the backing we have had over the last two years in building our pilot production facility and labs from the Government and our investors. The announcement confirms that Breathaboard is a validated drop-in solution for the wallboard market. It gives manufacturers and potential licensees of our technology the reassurance that it can enter their markets really soon and is a critical step to realising our vision of bringing low-carbon building materials to walls all over the world.”
It has been tested by independent UKAS accredited laboratories and can be fully compliant with incumbent standard EN 520 in all applicable performance criteria -exceeding them in some cases. More information about the tests and the results can be found on the website.
The product is a natural, scalable, carbon sequestering alternative to one of the most widely used construction products, plasterboard. The wallboard has half the embodied carbon than that of its competitors. It can save up to 4kg of CO2/m2 in a market of around 13bn m2 capacity. Adaptavate’s innovation can help the construction industry rapidly decarbonise without changing the way buildings are renovated or constructed.
Plans are now being put in place to build an industrial demonstrator to speed up the scalability and adoption of its climate-positive technology across the globe.
