Selected work

Technologies shaped around consequential problems.

Our portfolio spans disciplines, but every project shares a practical test: can a new technical approach create meaningful value in the real world?

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Climate Adaptation & Resilience

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Technology development

CinderGuard / Firelance

Problem: Wildfire and prescribed-fire teams need timely, field-ready environmental intelligence.
Approach: Monitoring and management concepts designed around the realities of fire operations.
Intended impact: Stronger situational awareness, preparedness and community resilience.

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Prototype pathway

PM Shield

Problem: Wildfire smoke can penetrate homes and create prolonged health exposure.
Approach: A whole-home approach to limiting particulate infiltration during smoke events.
Intended impact: Healthier indoor air and more resilient homes during wildfire emergencies.

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Concept validation

Bamblock

Problem: Communities need housing that is lower-carbon, adaptable and easier to build.
Approach: A stackable modular system using lignocellulosic materials, integrated service channels and structural tendons.
Intended impact: Resilient housing with reduced embodied carbon and accessible construction methods.

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Industrial Decarbonization & Resource Efficiency

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Independent company

Rockburst Technologies

Problem: Conventional ore comminution is exceptionally energy intensive.
Approach: CO₂ pulverization technology designed to unlock minerals with a different physical mechanism.
Intended impact: A potential pathway to lower-energy mineral processing and improved resource recovery.

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Food, Agriculture & Land

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Active collaboration

AgroRegenerativo

Problem: Ranchers need better ways to translate changing pasture conditions into timely grazing decisions.
Approach: Decision tools combining local field knowledge, biological data, computer vision and practical technical assistance.
Intended impact: More resilient pasture systems, stronger ranch productivity and field-tested climate adaptation.

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Nature & Environmental Monitoring

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Research & development

QUELL

Problem: Underwater monitoring tools can disturb the environments they are designed to observe.
Approach: Quiet underwater environmental lidar for non-invasive aquatic observation.
Intended impact: Better environmental intelligence with reduced acoustic disturbance.

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Strategic & Emerging Technologies

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Partner-led programs

Strategic Technology Studies

Problem: Consequential technical opportunities often sit between established disciplines and institutional mandates.
Approach: Focused discovery, first-principles modelling and rapid experimental programs.
Intended impact: Evidence for better R&D investment and clearer development pathways.

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