Pavement Stones as a Carbon Sink
MagPower™
The City of Rotterdam aims to reduce the embodied carbon of concrete paving used in public-space projects without compromising durability, safety, aesthetics, or performance. This project will validate a scalable carbon-storing paving solution compatible with existing production and supply chains, showing how leading urban cities can decarbonise at scale. The CO2 permanently stored in building materials will be evidence to support future municipal procurement of low-carbon paving materials.
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OC1 EIC Awardee + Buyer (wave2)
Sector
Construction (materials)
Buyer information
City of Rotterdam
The City of Rotterdam aims to reduce the embodied carbon of public infrastructure, while maintaining high standards for durability, performance, aesthetics and end-of-life recycling.
Concrete paving stones are widely used, and are being significantly procured, creating a significant opportunity for carbon reduction, when in public space projects, old pavement is replaced with new concrete materials.
The key challenge is finding scalable, low-carbon solutions that meet the technical requirements and could be considered in future procurement strategies.
Solver information

Paebbl AB
Paebbl is an industrial resilience company turning captured CO₂ into stable, solid building materials. Using a proprietary process inspired by nature, Paebbl accelerates mineralisation from centuries to hours, permanently storing carbon in materials for the built environment. By making carbon a resource, Paebbl helps create lower-carbon, more circular construction.
Solution
Nature slowly mineralises atmospheric CO₂, binding it into rocks like limestone. Paebbl collapses that timescale from centuries to hours. Our proprietary method exposes captured CO₂ to abundant minerals such as olivine and locks the carbon into a stable, solid form. Whilst nature typically takes centuries to complete this process, our technology achieves the same result in under a couple of hours, an acceleration factor of ten million.
The output of this process is a material that can be refined into a supplementary cementitious material (SCM). Unlike conventional cement manufacturing, which emits CO₂, our process takes CO₂ as an input, fundamentally reversing the environmental impact of construction materials.
Once incorporated into products such as paving stones, the carbon remains locked in throughout their service life and can stay stored through reuse or recycling.


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