<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-03T15:52:43Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/7B2A295D-3C53-46B6-98FE-3655EDE6C889" ns1:id="7B2A295D-3C53-46B6-98FE-3655EDE6C889"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/8496B679-9987-4E15-8471-9168F51FF054" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/2612AA93-6A5A-4DA0-9CD8-33D3A12ECC47" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/31E1D577-D3F5-45D2-9595-D5ACB0046CB7" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/7E9DBCB0-5B1C-47A4-8E3D-1404F2ABE3BF" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/2612AA93-6A5A-4DA0-9CD8-33D3A12ECC47" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2025-09-29T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/B754D3A7-8866-43AD-BFD7-86916B243033" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2023-09-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10077676</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>World’s First On-site Integration of BioConcrete Manufacturing</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Modern society relies upon concrete for our built environment - it is the second most used material on Earth after water. However, concrete accounts for 8% of our annual carbon emissions. This is due to the energy intensive, carbon emitting manufacture of cement, the glue that binds aggregate and sand together in conventional concrete.

BioZeroc is a biomaterials company that produces low-carbon concrete using bacteria. Our patented process uses this bacteria to bind aggregates and sand together into a material that performs as well as conventional concrete. This BioConcrete production process emits at least 85% less carbon, and has the potential to be carbon-negative once we incorporate waste materials into our bacterial feedstocks.

We are here to decarbonise concrete. This is a key step on our route to scale.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>