What is KIBECO®?
The construction industry is changing - and we are helping to shape this change. KIBECO is the driver for circular building materials at KIBAG and stands for innovative solutions. We develop and promote materials that reduce emissions, conserve resources and make the construction industry fit for the future.
KIBECO is more than just sustainability - we are a platform for innovation. Together with start-ups, research partners and the industry, we put new building material technologies into practice. Our goal? Building in cycles, finding ways to reduce CO₂ and using alternative products.
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Innovations that change construction
KIBECO is a platform for innovations that change the construction industry. We offer visionary start-ups and young companies the opportunity to further develop and realize their circular and resource-saving ideas for the construction industry. This allows synergies to be exploited that enable KIBAG to play a more active role in promoting the circular economy. The focus here is on reducing CO2 emissions and on regenerative construction.
Are you a young entrepreneur with an innovative idea for sustainable construction? Would you like to shape the construction of tomorrow together with us? Then get in touch with us.
Our Partners
Neustark is a spin-off of ETH Zurich founded in 2019 by young entrepreneurs. The company has developed an efficient solution that permanently and irreversibly stores CO2 in recycled concrete through carbonation. In cooperation with neustark, we commissioned our first mobile carbonation plant in the summer of 2022.
Oxara was founded in 2019 as an ETH spin-off. Oxara means "assembly and community" in Togolese. The company is convinced that a more sustainable construction industry offers great opportunities to create new value for the environment and society. Thanks to our collaboration, Cleancrete© was launched in 2022.
The ETH spin-off FenX specialises in transforming mineral waste into sustainable insulation solutions. The characteristics of mineral particles are utilised in such a way that highly porous material with strong insulating properties can be produced. The result: an insulating material that is insulating, sustainable, inexpensive to produce and non-combustible.
Tinamu Labs is an ETH spin-off that specialises in the automation of drone-based recordings in outdoor areas (e.g. storage areas) and indoor spaces (e.g. depot halls). In the process, information is transmitted to users in real time and processes are significantly simplified. Tinamu drones are regularly on the move at our recycling site in Regensdorf.
CombiFuel SWISS AG offers a new technology in the field of propulsion systems and emission reduction. In 2022, together with KIBAG, a 5-axle truck mixer with a conventional diesel engine was equipped with lower-emission liquefied petroleum gas and hydrogen-based engine operation. This makes it the first in the world to feature the CombiFuelSystem.
More than circular economy
Clay walls for Bern school building
We are preparing the use of our innovative cast clay walls, KIBECO Cleancrete Nossim, for the Weissenbühl school complex in Bern.
The current preliminary tests in collaboration with Oxara and Alluvia are providing important findings for optimal production and installation.
In the new year, implementation on the construction site will follow.
Latest references
YOND Campus
With the YOND Campus, Swiss Prime Site is creating a dynamic location for urban commercial use on the Albis site in Zurich by 2027. The building will use 1,500 m³ of KIBECO MIGROX Oulesse, a completely cement-free lean concrete made from mixed demolition granulate.
SPS is thus consciously focusing on CO₂-reduced and circular construction
Fastned
New fast-charging stations for electric vehicles from the provider Fastned are currently being built in Kloten - a project in which KIBAG is heavily involved. In addition to the construction work, KIBAG is also supplying sustainable building materials from its own production, which actively contribute to reducing CO₂ emissions.
KIBECO RECO concrete, a cement-reduced concrete that also permanently binds CO₂, and the completely cement-free lean concrete KIBECO MIGROX Oulesse have already been used.
Greencity
The pioneering Greencity district is currently being built on the site of the former Sihl-Manegg industrial wasteland in Zurich South. A diverse area with a clear focus on sustainability is being developed on an area of around eight hectares.
KIBECO supplied 11,800 m³ of KIBECO concrete fumigated with CO₂ for the current construction phases. KIBECO concrete permanently stores ten kilograms of CO₂ per cubic meter. With a quantity of 11,800 m³ of concrete, this corresponds to a stored quantity of 118 tons of CO₂. This CO₂ was permanently removed from the atmosphere and stored in the recycled building material. By way of comparison, it would take around 9,440 mature beech trees to store the same amount of CO₂.
At the same time, the concrete meets all the high quality and performance requirements.
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