BIOMATERIALS FOR YOU
GBM wants to help build a world where all waste shall be recycled in a safe and natural way.
Men used good bacteria since thousands of years ago even to produce healthy food like some types of breads, cheese, yogurt, wine, sour beer and much more.
GBM selects and uses bacteria that are friendly to humans and the environment, to transform waste into useful products for everyone.
As the carbon clock is ticking and cement is one of the main responsible for anthropomorphic greenhouse gases, GBM produces natural biocement and biomaterials, saving 80% of CO2 compared to traditional concrete while bringing profits and environmental benefits to Finland and Europe.
Our future is our responsibility: let’s build it together!
Global emissions of CO2 are estimated to be 42.2 billion tons per year, the equivalent of 1,337 tons per second. With emissions at a constant level, the budget for staying below the 2°C threshold, of 1,150 billion ton, would be exhausted in about 25 years.
And concrete is ‘the silent killer’: “If the concrete used on the planet were a Country, it would be the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind China and the United States” .
To mitigate global emissions, we would have an inexhaustible resource available: wastes. But today, although some concrete is recycled, many tons lay unused in landfills. These resources are even more important now, in a time of shortages and rising prices of raw materials and energy. The world won’t slow down producing, and the only way to global improvements are green and economically feasible technologies.
GBM’s scope is making materials recyclable, infinitely. We produce building blocks and objects in a natural way, starting from waste materials and using non-pathogenic bacteria, harmless to humans and the environment.
GBM process has four components: waste materials, GBM Bacteria, GBM Nutrients, and water. To make a block of biomaterial, we pour in mold crushed wastes, our GBM Nutrients, and GBM Bacteria: bacteria work for 7 to 28 days (depending on the final hardness wanted) and then the natural block is ready. GBM Bacteria produce a natural adhesive made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3, it is the same material of corals and seashells), that forms a mesh around the crushed particles of waste and keeps them together.
GBM technology can be exploited for many uses, such as ground stabilization around rivers, oceans, desert dunes; building natural foundations for buildings, roads, and railways; reducing heavy metals’ leachability in polluted soil and water; space applications, …
GBM process is low CO2, as almost the whole emission from our process is indirect, by upstream production of GBM Nutrient; low energy, since there is no need for high energy input. With GBM, at least 80% of CO2 saving is achieved compared to the production of concrete or wood incineration.
GBM IN NUMBERS
GBM PROCESS
GBM process, if sprayed over a land or sand, fossilizes the ground in a few months.
It exploits the same system as fossils but, instead of taking millions of years, in just two or three months the process is completed and the sand or terrain is hardened.
We can obtain different types of hardness, from sand to marble.
It can be used also to prevent and stop desertification as well as preventing terrain to slope in case of floods.
BENEFITS OF GBM
GBM process has many uses, that we briefly mention:
- Improve cultivation level of the desert sands
- Improve the spontaneous regrowth of plants in the deserts
- Creation of pitch wells above and under the sands of deserts
- Creation of 100% natural roads and paths by the beach
- Creation of 100% natural (made of stabilized sand):
- Natural Housing
- Natural Parks
- Natural Oasis in the desert
- Natural Accommodations
- Natural Artworks
- Stabilization of loose land to prevent flooding
- Stabilization of sands to prevent movement
- Stabilization of infrastructure to prevent flooding
- Restoration of dams in depths
- Strengthen road pavement
- Depth of fortress in oil wells
- Restoration of ancient works
- Help reduce CO2 by using less Portland cement
PROOFS OF CONCEPT
Various proofs of concept have been developed, using as main material ground, wood, clay or Glued Wood Panels (MDF).
