BELIEVE
“Prometheus Materials and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill developed a bio-cement that’s a winner in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards … This low-carbon cement was made in a bioreactor, not in a kiln …”
![](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Fast_Company.png)
“Bio-Block Represents a Sea Change for the Building Materials Industry … Prometheus Materials previews the next wave of construction with a masonry block made of algae.”
![](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pm_web-prslogo-azure_01.png)
“Concrete made from algae? Chicago firm offers a closer look at ‘bio-blocks,’ a zero-carbon alternative … The installation itself saves over a metric ton of carbon compared to an identical structure …”
![](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pm_web-prslogo-chicagotrib_01.png)
“Dezeen’s Top 10 Innovative Materials of 2023 … As part of our review of 2023, Dezeen’s design and environment editor Jennifer Hahn has rounded up 10 of this year’s most significant material innovations …”
![](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/pm_web-prslogo-dezeen_01b.png)
“This new cement could become America’s next big bumper crop and help save the world as we know it … Colorado-based Prometheus Materials and other emerging companies are developing new biocements …”
![](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Fast_Company.png)
“What Zero-Carbon Bio-Cement and Bio-Concrete Mean for the Future … Metrics like these show that there’s clearly no sacrifice when choosing to be more sustainable within this category of building materials.”
![](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/pm_web-prslogo-gbd_01.png)
Prometheus Materials Unique Decarbonized Biocomposite vs. Traditional Portland Cement
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Prometheus Materials Zero-Carbon Bio-Concrete vs. Conventional Concrete
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PROVE
CASE STUDIES
![Building a wall with a concrete blocks made by Prometheus Materials.](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/p_3.png)
Helping to Model a More Sustainable Future by Hand
![](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/p_2.png)
Natural Material Meets Next-Gen Design Outside of Chicago
![A person putting the finishing touches on a model building.](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/p_1.png)
Laying the First Blocks of Many for Microsoft’s Data Centers
![usbgc_logo](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/usbgc_logo.png)
![the_masonry_Society](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/the_masonry_Society.png)
![pm_web-memblogo-imason_01](https://prometheusmaterials.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/pm_web-memblogo-imason_01.png)