Bill Gates is funding startups in the field of eco-

efficient construction
"...the world will add 2 trillion square feet of buildings by 2060—the equivalent of putting
up another New York City every month for the next 40 years"
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Buildings-are-good-for-people-and-bad-for-the-climate

I'm glad to see Bill Gates so concerned about building materials, thus recognizing that not
only computers (which made him a billionaire) constitute promising areas and that the
building industry is crucial to the future of this Planet. As long that we can have billionaires
willing to fund startups that can bring radical innovations into the market.

Still the first two startups that are mentioned in the post (Boston Metal and CarbonCure) are
not what leapfrog innovation is about because they bring only innovation of the incremental
type. The only that truly stands out in terms of radical innovation with high sales and
environmental impact (as there are also those who are very environmentally friendly but a
sales disaster) that he funded is the startup 75 F https://www.75f.io/about/our-story/building-
energy-management-system-awards

There are several other things in his post that deserve to be pointed out, such as the
importance of carbon sequestration in concrete (forgetting that there are other ways to
sequester carbon dioxide in building construction https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/
2019/11 /thermal-and-energy-performance.html) or the rampant increase of A/C units that will
grow 300% by 2050 reaching 5 billion units. Not coincidentally this is the topic addressed in
the second edition of an upcoming book to be published next year
Pacheco-Torgal, F.; Czarnecki, L.; Pisello, A.L.; Cabeza, L.F.; Granqvist, C-G.. Eds.
2020. Eco-efficient Materials for Mitigating Building Cooling Needs-Second Edition, Elsevier
that covers pavements, façade and roofing materials, with particular emphasis on PCMs,
where Highly Cited Researcher Luisa F. Cabeza (h-index =
59 https://www.scopus.com/authid /detail.uri?authorId=7004085845) is a world renowned
expert and also the so-called "smart" glazing (electrochromic and thermochromic) that were
the life´s work of professor Claes Goran Granqvist (h-index =
85 https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36045018800)