Fresh Air from Inside.
Mission
The goal of BIOM Technologies is to combine biology and design to make beautiful things that help people and nature thrive.
Focus
Poor air quality accounts for 1 in 10 deaths and is the #1 environmental risk to human health (W.H.O.).
As we spend 95% of our time indoors, we are constantly breathing in low doses of poison off-gassing from building materials and furniture. Being in a typical indoor space is equivalent to breathing in roughly half a cigarette per day worth of toxic gas.
Purifying indoor air is thus a massive leverage point on human health and is the current focus of BIOM.
At the same time, buildings expend an enormous amount of energy heating and cooling outdoor air, and then exhausting that air once it is stale. BIOM builds devices that generate fresh air from inside, allowing for air recirculation and significant energy savings in (commercial) buildings with large fresh air supply requirements.
Technology
BIOM's devices combine modern air filtration techniques with the natural “biotechnology” of the forest floor to capture and recycle contaminants via a diverse consortia of plant-associated microbes.
At the same time, plant leaves capture CO₂ and produce O₂. In this way, BIOM's devices are not just air purifiers but fresh air generators.
The fresh air that is generated by BIOM devices can be ducted directly into traditional HVAC systems for distribution and recirculation. In several pilots, this kind of “biomechanical HVAC” system has dramatically improved both indoor air quality and building energy efficiency.
Team
BIOM was founded by Will Pepi, PhD and launched out of the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) in Brooklyn, NY.
Along the way, BIOM has partnered with numerous world-class organizations.