VANCOUVER, BC (May 29, 2025) – Light House, an organization focused on advancing circular practices in the built environment, is now accepting applications for the 2025/2026 Circular Construction Accelerator (CCA). This complimentary, impact-driven program supports B.C.-based businesses in adopting circular economy practices to reduce waste, create new value streams, and contribute to a more resilient built environment. Through the CCA, participating businesses also receive tailored support to build local resilience, mitigate supply chain risks, enhance growth and competitiveness, and pursue export opportunities and strategic partnerships.
“A circular built environment is grounded in three principles: eliminate waste through upstream design, optimize material use and lifecycle, and regenerate natural systems,” said Gil Yaron, Managing Director, Circular Innovation, Light House. “The CCA helps businesses implement these principles in practical, measurable ways — strengthening business models while addressing one of B.C.’s largest waste streams: construction, renovation, and demolition materials.”
The 2024/2025 cohort featured innovative companies tackling diverse material challenges:
- Deconstructors Demolition (Nanaimo): Delivers eco-conscious deconstruction services to reduce landfill waste and return salvaged materials to the local economy.
- Ergo Eco Solutions (Duncan): Collects used cooking oil and transforms it into Oil-ternative®, a safer, sustainable concrete release agent for the construction industry.
- GRT (Victoria): Produces low-carbon aggregate products from excess soil and concrete, supporting green infrastructure projects across BC.
- Infina Technologies (Delta): Offers InfinaNet™, an innovative voided concrete product that reduces the volume and carbon footprint of concrete in buildings.
- Renewal Development (Vancouver): Rescues and relocates quality single-family homes slated for demolition to non-urban communities, offering faster, more affordable housing while preventing usable structures from entering the waste stream.
- VEMA Deconstruction (Vancouver): Provides sustainable demolition services to recover valuable building materials and keep them in circulation.
“The Circular Construction Accelerator has been a game-changer for us. It gave our team access to expert insight and tailored support that helped strengthen our business model and sharpen our messaging,” said Manveer Pattar, President, Infina Technologies. “Being part of a cohort of innovative, sustainability-driven companies also reinforced the larger purpose behind our work—keeping valuable materials in use and out of landfills.”
Designed with flexibility and impact in mind, the CCA offers customized 1-on-1 advisory support from industry experts, access to strategic partnerships and connections, and market exposure — all at no cost to participants. Unlike traditional accelerators, the CCA doesn’t follow a rigid curriculum. Instead, it works directly with each business to identify their unique challenges and opportunities.
Whether you’re seeking financing to develop a circular cleantech solution for the construction sector, opportunities to test your circular product or technology in construction projects, expanding into new markets, or other support to scale your circular cleantech product or technology, the CCA delivers tailored, actionable guidance. Past support has included:
- Product development and market readiness
- Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
- Business case development
- Circular design and waste-to-resource strategy
- Market research and trend analysis
- Communications and positioning strategy
- Navigation of upcoming policy and funding landscapes
“The Circular Construction Accelerator helped us identify new markets for our services, refine our value proposition, and develop our pitch,” said Jamie Angus, Director, Deconstructors Demolition. “With guidance on circular strategy and positioning, we’re now better equipped to show how thoughtful deconstruction adds both economic and environmental value to B.C.’s construction sector.”
Eligible businesses must be based in British Columbia, operate in or serve the construction and built environment sector, and either apply or plan to apply circular economy principles in their business model.
Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 cohort. To apply, contact cca@light-house.org or visit www.light-house.org/cca for more information.
About Light House
Light House is dedicated to creating circular and regenerative built environments that restore ecological and human health. Working with building owners and developers, construction professionals and general contractors, Light House creates regenerative communities and buildings that give back to the environment and promote well-being. Light House also provides policy advice, market assessments, stakeholder facilitation and customized education programs to all levels of government and building industry stakeholders. From buildings to regions and across residential, institutional, commercial and industrial sectors, Light House projects cut across all scales of building and development. For more information, visit light-house.org.