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ARPA-E Announces Funding for Project "Carbon Negative Materials Assessment (CaNMA)"

March 31, 2022
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced $5 million in funding to two universities—the University of Washington and University of California, Davis—working to develop life cycle assessment tools and frameworks associated with transforming buildings into net carbon storage structures. (Credit: ARPA-E)
The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced $5 million in funding to two universities—the University of Washington and University of California, Davis—working to develop life cycle assessment tools and frameworks associated with transforming buildings into net carbon storage structures. (Credit: ARPA-E)

Professor Arpad Horvath is part of the team led by the University of California, Davis (PI: Professor Sabbie Miller) that will develop novel models that integrate material properties and characteristics into greenhouse gas sequestration scenarios to inform technological breakthroughs in carbon storing building materials.

Models will also be generated for rapid assessment of uncertainty in the life cycle assessment of novel building materials that can inform ARPA-E-funded HESTIA teams of target areas for improvement during the material development process.