Tejas Sidnal, the creative force behind CarbonCraft, the sustainable company, is shaping the future of the construction sector.
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00:02 >> He's a passionate entrepreneur,
00:04 where he really wants to solve the problem.
00:08 >> Tejas is very dedicated,
00:11 and the product which we are working on is very unique.
00:15 Need of the hour, innovation nowadays is helping the environment.
00:21 >> It is a different idea.
00:23 It's out of the box.
00:25 It's exciting because it's something facing climate change,
00:29 38 percent of energy related carbon emissions
00:33 are due to the construction industry.
00:35 The entire industry is a huge emitter.
00:39 So it becomes important and paramount for architects to give
00:44 suggestions so that we can build a world which is future-proof,
00:49 and that's one of the reasons why I'm doing what I'm doing.
00:51 I'm Tejas Siddhanal, founder of Carbon Craft,
00:53 and we convert carbon emissions into beautiful looking tiles.
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01:07 >> We all fantasize about how you would want to build,
01:10 how you can solve a problem.
01:11 But then when you come down to practicality and start to make
01:14 a product which is sellable in the world, it's extremely difficult.
01:19 You need to make a business case out of it.
01:20 I graduated back in 2011,
01:22 almost a decade ago.
01:23 My architecture college, while I was studying,
01:26 I got introduced to this concept of biomimicry,
01:28 which is taking inspiration from nature to design.
01:31 I was so excited about it that I wanted to study more about it,
01:36 and then I went for my master's,
01:37 which is Emerging Technologies and Design in London.
01:40 I studied that and then I wanted to practice more of it.
01:43 I went to China, I worked over there.
01:46 I asked myself, as an architect,
01:48 do I want to build the way we build right now?
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01:54 Which means, do I want to pollute while I'm building?
01:58 That's when I realized,
02:00 can we really learn from nature?
02:01 Can we emulate the way they build?
02:04 Is that even possible?
02:05 Can we build carbon negative homes?
02:08 With that intention, Carbon Craft was born,
02:11 and the quest around starting to make carbon negative materials.
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02:22 We work with solid carbon.
02:24 It's also called soot,
02:25 which is what becomes eventually once it's burnt and put out into the air.
02:30 What we use is the recovered carbon black.
02:34 So we take this recovered carbon black from various factories,
02:39 which is tire recycling factories,
02:41 which otherwise would have been burnt.
02:44 Because it has a high calorific value,
02:47 we process this carbon and then we use it as one of the back-end raw materials that we need.
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02:55 We mix it with various proportions,
02:57 make our own formulation,
02:58 and we make these absolutely gorgeous looking tiles that can be then placed in residential homes.
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03:07 I got to know Tejas from his unique idea about absorbing carbon from the environment,
03:13 and making a tile of it,
03:15 which reduces pollution and help the environment breathe clean air.
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03:23 They have asked us for support for manufacturing.
03:27 As we have our infrastructure ready and we are into this,
03:32 we thought of pivoting ourselves also.
03:34 The product on which they are working now is accumulating the carbon from
03:39 the environment and making a product out of it,
03:43 which is 100 percent natural.
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03:54 After four years, we launched the product,
03:57 and right now it's commercially available.
03:59 Basically, it's a four-stage proprietary process,
04:02 collect, process, build, and cure.
04:04 First, we collect the carbon and various other raw material as a waste.
04:10 Then second stage, we process it to utilize a construction product.
04:14 Then third process is we built it.
04:17 We are moving to sustainable mechanization.
04:19 Fourth process is curing,
04:21 where we store carbon into the tile.
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04:27 At the moment, we can make about 100,000 square feet of tiles in one year.
04:32 We can double or triple this entire quantity in two or three months based on our demand.
04:39 We've got enough feedback at this point in time to be able to make
04:45 a product which is far more superior from what is there in the market,
04:49 and build a much larger company which is environmentally conscious,
04:55 socially inclusive, and sustainable.
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05:08 If you're able to create value for a customer,
05:11 you'll be able to sell the product.
05:14 We have to save work in whatever way we can,
05:16 and I literally mean save.
05:19 It's being looked at in denial,
05:22 and we need to come out of that mode and start looking at it,
05:25 that it is an emergency situation.
05:27 It is on fire, and we have to act accordingly to it.
05:31 If you don't act now, it won't be left for the next generation to be able to do anything.
05:36 A very interesting way of looking at the world that we live in,
05:40 can we make circular economy-based products where it's not having an end of life?
05:48 It's the challenge we're looking to solve.
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