BIG INNOVATION PITCH

Adaptavate is a world leader in developing and industrialising carbon negative construction materials. They are taking a step forward to decarbonise the construction industry by pioneering Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) in the manufacture of building materials.
What’s more, they are creating the necessary industrial processes to scale their technology and carbon negative products globally.
The company has built a business that is ecologically regenerative and economically profitable.
Breathaboard is Adaptavate’s awarded innovation. Recognised by FIS (Finishes & Interior Sectors) as a Sustainable Innovation and by Made in Britain as the Innovation of the Year, both in 2023, Breathaboard is a scalable, bio-based, carbon sequestering, high-performance, cost-comparative alternative to plasterboard – a widely used construction material.
Breathaboard has enhanced thermal performance, reduces the risk of mould forming and it is totally compostable at the end of its life. The product is installed the same way as plasterboard but with lighter weight and to the same standards as wallboard.
Adaptavate is in the last stages of commissioning a pilot line in Bristol, UK, to develop and manufacture carbon negative wallboard materials, Breathaboard, at a larger scale, looking to license this industry-changing technology to the world’s largest building products manufacturers.
The company will take Breathaboard from the pilot line to buildings’ walls in 2024.
Adaptavate’s technology uses carbon rich feedstocks as an input such as cellulosic by-products and wastes and binds them with low-carbon minerals and water to form a flat board material, drywall.
The production process uses c.40% less water than other board technology and absorbs low grade CO2, potentially from industrial emissions to enable the product to cure. This is instead of burning large quantities of natural gas as part of the curing of other board materials.