Andy Youngs is Director of Applications Development & Testing for Calera Corporation in Los Gatos, CA. Andy is a chemist, an engineer, a registeredpatent agent and an inventor. He holds 15 US Patents on environmental products for the construction industry, a BS Chemistry and an MBA. Prior to joining Calera, Andy was a consultant to the portland cement industry, where he was largely responsible for the development of pervious concrete into a widely used material for pavements to mitigate stormwater pollution. An avid environmentalist and retired professional kickboxer, Andy resides in Saratoga, CA.
Calera Corporation is dedicated to reversing global warming and ocean acidification by trapping the most troublesome greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, and converting it to a practical building material such as cement. By sequestering this carbon dioxide and placing it into the built environment, Calera is proactively reducing the level of free carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere.The nature of Calera’s process is highly proprietary, and covered by a multitude of intellectual property instruments. In general, though, the Calera process starts with a water source and waste CO2 from sources such as coal-fired power plants, and produces building materials and clean water from the process, while capturing the CO2 inside the building material itself. Los Gatos, CA is home to the corporate headquarters and principal laboratory of Calera. Additional process laboratories and a 200-acre pilot plant facility are situated at two locations along the Northern California coast.
