Celium: Cellulose-Mycelium Composites For Carbon Negative Buildings/Construction

Building Science Projects

Celium: Cellulose-Mycelium Composites For Carbon Negative Buildings/Construction This project seeks to develop and de-risk cost-effective, bio-based insulation by fabricating net CO2-negative cellulose-mycelium composites with high-performance thermal, acoustic and antimicrobial properties. We propose to do so by valorizing cellulosic fibers with mycelium, the root network of fungi, to create a new class of high-performing, carbon capturing…

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Efficiency Upgrades in Tribal Buildings

Community Work

CCHRC is working with three communities to act on recommendations from energy audits of local community buildings. In these projects, CCHRC staff and local partners are documenting current conditions of buildings, creating scopes of work for high payback energy efficiency improvements, completing the improvements, and conducting outreach on energy efficiency. Project staff are tracking energy…

Tanana Chiefs Conference – Technical Assistance Projects

Community Work

The Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) Rural Energy Department focuses on community-wide energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy efficiency buildings projects. CCHRC provides technical assistance to TCC to document the scope and resulting savings of energy projects in Interior Alaska tribal communities. Resources TitleTypeResource LinkHoly Cross Energy Project Final ReportReportsDownload Holy Cross Energy Project PosterPosterDownload Huslia…

Alaska Healthy Homes

Community Work

CCHRC is assisting several locations in Alaska with healthy homes remediation. These projects provide healthy housing surveys that identify health and safety hazards, accessibility shortcomings, energy inefficiencies, and other issues. These surveys are the basis for follow on healthy housing education and remediation. CCHRC staff provide support and training in grant management, environmental reviews, healthy…

Point Lay Houses

Navigating the New Arctic: Ice-Rich Permafrost Systems

Community Work

The Navigating the New Arctic: Ice Rich Permafrost Systems project will look at both landscape evolution and adaptation to change in northern Alaska as permafrost evolves in the warming climate. Changes in the Arctic affect natural, social, and built environments. This project, funded by the National Science Foundation, looks at how changes in climate, snow,…