Washington Post: Reinventing the world’s favorite building material

The following article was originally published in the Washington Post.

At the Material Evolution’s lab, a few dozen employees, dressed in white coveralls, some wearing respirators, mix and grind and measure. They look like very focused bunnies.

*Elizabeth Gilligan, a 32-year-old materials scientist with a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, co-founded the company and developed this version of green cement in her parents’ garage two years ago. She bought some early lab equipment on eBay.*

During the covid lockdowns, she began to wonder: “What if we can make cement without the heat?

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