The project aims to use direct carbon conversion to chemically enhance supplementary cementitious materials for building construction. In this project, NREL and Carbon Upcycling are partnering to develop and demonstrate a framework to assess various SCMs available in North America, including biomass-derived SCMs and byproduct SCMs from high-emitting industries such as steel and mining, for their suitability as SCMs.

Support for this project comes from the Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT) program.