Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad (COIL) has launched our National Construction and Demolition Circular Innovation Challenge to encourage the development of new ideas, innovations or approaches to specifically address materials diversion and recovery or reuse, recycling and upcycling challenges in the construction, renovation and demolition (CRD) sector. COIL is seeking collaborative teams of organizations (businesses, not-for-profits, academia, etc) with new thinking to accelerate the climate-smart circular economy (CE).
We have funding available for CRD CE projects that can create systems-level, sector-wide impact and change. The ideas, innovations or approaches should be capable of transforming an industry, or even create a new one. COIL is looking for teams that want to be Canadian circular economy leaders. Further to funding, mentorship and CE education, accepted participants in our CRD CE challenge will receive promotion across our networks, including at national and/or international forums.
Three (3) teams will receive $15,000 each to develop their idea/innovation during the prototype phase and one (1) successful team will receive up to an additional $75,000 for a six-month demonstration pilot project
- Collaborative team of three or more organizations to submit CRD CE proposal
- Lead applicant of team must be a Canadian small-to-medium enterprise (SME) of less than 500 employees
- Potential impact
- Measurable reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Increase material diversion and recovery rates
- Develop or grow secondary market demand and/or infrastructure to increase material recycling rates
- Reduces costs (or cost neutral) and straightforward to implement so action will be sustained over time
- Extra consideration will be given to ideas or innovations with potential to drive sector change across Canada
- Implementation-ready and scalable
- Ability to drive systems-level change and sector-wide impact
- Project operation, majority of team-members and impact of prototyped/demonstrated innovation must be in the construction, renovation and demolition (CRD) sector in Canada
- Matched funding preferred
- Matched funding can include capital, in-kind, commitment to knowledge transfer, etc
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation reports that the “built environment” uses almost half of all materials extracted from the Earth each year. This challenge is to improve the management of CRD materials from across the supply chain, recovery on construction sites, diversion away from landfill, and to increased reuse, recycling and/or upcycling.
National Construction & Demolition Circular Innovation Challenge
Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad (COIL) has launched our National Construction and Demolition Circular Innovation Challenge to encourage the development of new ideas, innovations or approaches to specifically address materials diversion and recovery or reuse, recycling and upcycling challenges in the construction, renovation and demolition (CRD) sector. COIL is seeking collaborative teams of organizations (businesses, not-for-profits, academia, etc) with new thinking to accelerate the climate-smart circular economy (CE).
We have funding available for CRD CE projects that can create systems-level, sector-wide impact and change. The ideas, innovations or approaches should be capable of transforming an industry, or even create a new one. COIL is looking for teams that want to be Canadian circular economy leaders. Further to funding, mentorship and CE education, accepted participants in our CRD CE challenge will receive promotion across our networks, including at national and/or international forums.
Three (3) teams will receive $15,000 each to develop their idea/innovation during the prototype phase and one (1) successful team will receive up to an additional $75,000 for a six-month demonstration pilot project
- Collaborative team of three or more organizations to submit CRD CE proposal
- Lead applicant of team must be a Canadian small-to-medium enterprise (SME) of less than 500 employees
- Potential impact
- Measurable reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Increase material diversion and recovery rates
- Develop or grow secondary market demand and/or infrastructure to increase material recycling rates
- Reduces costs (or cost neutral) and straightforward to implement so action will be sustained over time
- Extra consideration will be given to ideas or innovations with potential to drive sector change across Canada
- Implementation-ready and scalable
- Ability to drive systems-level change and sector-wide impact
- Project operation, majority of team-members and impact of prototyped/demonstrated innovation must be in the construction, renovation and demolition (CRD) sector in Canada
- Matched funding preferred
- Matched funding can include capital, in-kind, commitment to knowledge transfer, etc
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation reports that the “built environment” uses almost half of all materials extracted from the Earth each year. This challenge is to improve the management of CRD materials from across the supply chain, recovery on construction sites, diversion away from landfill, and to increased reuse, recycling and/or upcycling.