ByHav

projects

Sep 1

Within the pre-project ByHav, aka City Sea, led by NIVA, Bioregion Institute maps opportunities for promoting and securing biological diversity through the exploration of regenerative geopolymers marine modules made out of marine waste, to enhance restoration of marine fauna and flora within our coastal ecosystem.

© 2024, BYHAV, additive manufactoring exploration with marine biomass.

Use short-traveled seafood and organic residual fractions from the coastal region to develop new bio-based carbon-neutral products. The goal is for the project to form new circular regional value chains that promote biodiversity in the ocean, while at the same time strengthening the visual experience of the marine life, in the urban space.
The zero-emission society requires radical change and restructuring in the way the city consumes, produces and uses energy. In order to achieve the climate goals, all regional resources must be utilized in a way that restores the natural ecosystems.

*BYHAV draft of land and marine ecosystems in Bergen area.*

In a bioregional approach, the food systems and material flows, both below and above the surface of the sea, are mapped and usages for residual fractions are identified. To use marine waste where is produced, reduces the geographical size value circles, strengthen the local identity through unique products and aesthetics and strengthen regional supply. Circular systems are largely about physical reworking of material fractions. Production of bio-based products uses radically less energy, seven times less and can replace polluting fossil plastics. By using the organic and the material waste streams as resources in a new circular regional industry that builds the city and achieves the goal of a climate-neutral Bergen in 2050.