b'SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGThe plan is to raise capital from the sale of biodiesel and pre-sales of its bricks to purchase a 33,000-square-foot facility in B.C.s Lower Mainland. Once up and running, Marriott estimates that TOP Carbon Capture will have the capability to produce upwards of 18,800 hempcrete blocks in half a day, which is enough to build four to six 1,600-square-foot houses.Instead of it being an aggregate withbenefits that just [come] from planting stone or small rock and sand, ours usesa seed in the ground, she says.hemp hurd (hemp shiv) at different partic-ulate sizes, Marriott explains. SomeProducing hempcrete bricks for resi-people use really large pieces, but fordential and facility construction is all our materials, weve found that its a lotpart of TOP Carbon Captures vision. easier to pour the smaller grain of hempAnother is using the material to build shiv into the material so that it can below-carbon homes that are powered and pourable. That way, we can make it intoheated by the biodiesel fuel created from a formed material. hemp crops. TOP Carbon Capture has been attractingThe company is currently in its initial national attention, and in 2022, Marriottstages of growth. Marriott and Mason and Mason took home first place in thehave obtained a licence to grow hemp Synergy Foundations Project Zero incu- and have hired several farmers to start bator. The start-up was recognized fortheir hemp crops. These crops will be its potential to reduce greenhouse gasused to produce the required biowaste production in Canadas residential sector(e.g., shiv) for their hempcrete bricks, as and address housing issues throughoutwell as biodiesel fuels that the company its communities.will sell to raise capital for the compa-nys next phases. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Georgia Lavender, director of programAt the same time, the pair are exploring operations at Synergy Foundation, said:partnerships with cannabis growers I think they could be a real player withinacross Canada to gain even greater the construction industry and really beaccess to the hemp biowaste needed able to support our transition towardsto reach their hempcrete brick produc-more net zero building and focusing ontion targets. Were currently trying to sustainable building practices.create a co-op system with other commu-nities across Canada where we transfer FROM THE GROUND UP our licence to their properties and help Hempcretebricksareaninspiredlower the carbon footprints to their farms buildingsolutionforMarriottandthrough a carbon credit system thats Mason. The pair reside in Richmond, B.C.,being registered right now, Marriott says.where theyve developed an affinity for natural and sustainable living. Mason,One of the companys more immediate who co-leads the company as president,goals is finding a permanent manu- A PROUD MEMBER OFnotes that hemp biowaste is a materialfacturing facility to begin production that fits well with these values. Whenon its hempcrete bricks. The plan is to we started looking into hemp and all ofraise capital from the sale of biodiesel the amazing benefits that it has, we wentand pre-sales of its bricks to purchase a down a rabbit hole of all its amazing33,000-square-foot facility in B.C.s Lower Indigenous BUSINESS REPORT27'