BOSTON-WS Development and Sublime Systems announced the first-ever commercial application of low-carbon Sublime Cement, manufactured by Sublime Systems, which spun out of MIT in 2020.
The concrete placement is located in the indoor public space of WS Development’s One Boston Wharf, Boston’s largest net-zero-carbon office building, in the Seaport district.
Sublime Systems is developing a breakthrough method of avoiding CO2 from cement-making, which currently accounts for 8% of global CO2 emissions. Sublime’s “true-zero” manufacturing technology fully avoids traditional cement’s major emissions sources, limestone feedstock and fossil-fueled kilns, instead using electrochemistry to extract reactive cementitious ingredients from non-carbonate materials and ultimately form the same hardened concrete the world has relied on for millennia.
“Buildings are monuments to the values of the people who build them, and the One Boston Wharf project represents WS Development’s leadership in ushering in our post-carbon future,” said Sublime CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Leah Ellis. “They are creating not only the building but the world where people want to be. We are honored to have Sublime Cement™ featured so prominently here and are confident this pioneering place will inspire infrastructure owners everywhere to embrace low-embodied-carbon materials as a powerful tool for achieving our global net-zero goals.”
The partnership between Sublime and Seaport began when Yanni Tsipis, Senior Vice President at WS Development and Lecturer at the MIT Center for Real Estate, read the MIT Technology Review profile of Sublime Systems, founded and led by former MIT postdoc Dr. Leah Ellis and MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Yet-Ming Chiang. Tsipis, who holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering from MIT, recognized the opportunity to apply the newest low-carbon building technology to WS’ Boston…