As cities have grown, natural landscapes have been replaced by massive amounts of impervious surface area that takes the form of streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and alleyways. Each time it rains, these surfaces contribute overwhelming levels of stormwater runoff. Instead of absorbing into the ground naturally, rainfall hits these surfaces and becomes stormwater runoff that inevitably picks up toxins and pollutants before discharging into ocean bays, lakes, rivers, and streams. Polluted runoff is destroying our waterways and diminishing water quality in cities throughout the U.S.

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, over 10 Trillion gallons of untreated stormwater and sewage gets discharged into our waterways each year, making stormwater runoff pollution one of the most pervasive environmental issues that cities face today.

This issue is so severe that cities like Baltimore, have begun plans to rip up thousands of acres of concrete and asphalt to help eliminate runoff. And in cities like Los Angeles, billions of gallons of stormwater that could replenish groundwater, instead gets sent as waste to the Pacific ocean. 

Continued urbanization, increased average rainfall, and deteriorating urban water infrastructure is only making the problem worse.

AquiPor’s permeable hard surface material has the strength and durability of concrete, with water-permeability rates that allow large volumes of rainfall to pass through it naturally.  AquiPor material functions like a hard surface filter, capable of sifting out harmful pollutants and particulates that are problematic in stormwater. With sub-micron porosity, our material can filter stormwater without clogging from dirt and debris. Stormwater simply permeates through our material and subgrade, returning naturally to the ground below.

Our advanced solution to old-school materials is designed to be as durable as normal concrete, yet permeable enough to handle up to 25 inches of water every hour, helping to eliminate runoff at scale. 

*Image above are computer generated demo version of how the product will function. Product is still currently under development.

*The video above includes computer generated demo versions of how the product will function. The product is still currently under development.

Over the next 8 years alone, the US is expected to spend $629B on capital expenditures pertaining to water infrastructure. 

In a recent survey elected officials in U.S. cities estimated a  $32 billion need specifically for stormwater infrastructure.

As more cities adopt Green Infrastructure approaches as part of their stormwater management plans, the projected value of the permeable pavement market is expected to eclipse $22 Billion 2026. 

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Over the past four years we have been quietly developing material technologies and product solutions that are proving to be far stronger and more permeable than standard permeable pavement materials. 

Our portfolio of Intellectual Properties includes exclusive worldwide license rights to three separate process, utility, and design patents. These patent licensing rights represent new manufacturing technologies, as well as new ways to apply AquiPor material in existing cityscapes to achieve large-scale stormwater management.

With R&D nearly complete, we are preparing to enter the first manufacturing phase for our products, which can be produced by existing precast and paver manufacturing facilities.

To date, we have raised over $1M from industry insiders to help us expedite in-depth product and market R&D.

*These images all show different phases of our R&D cycles. Including pilot product manufacturing and cement technology testing.

AquiPor has exclusive worldwide licensing rights to the following US Patents: 9,943,791 (2018), 10,106,463 (October 2018) and 10,486,984 (January 2019). These patented technologies and processes enable us to produce strong, highly permeable hardscape material that is engineered with sub-micron porosity (to resist clogging). The patents also cover the use of AquiPor’s permeable material in an engineered design in public right of way applications, all of which required significant early capital and focused R&D which spanned over 4 years.

In addition to exclusive licenses to the U.S. patents, AquiPor also owns exclusive rights to PCT and National Stage filings of patents pending in key markets throughout the world, including Canada, Mexico, Australia, India, Israel, and the European Union. 

AquiPor is continually pursuing new technologies and intellectual properties to expand its innovation stack in stormwater management.

AquiPor has developed more than just a new construction product. We have reason to believe that the characteristics of our material allow it to be applied in new engineered designs to enable large-scale stormwater management in cities, while augmenting existing cityscapes. We are currently in the research and development stage and have manufactured prototypes for our permeable pavers and engineered system designs.

Our last round of funding helped facilitate in-depth R&D, including a series of internal proof-of-concept studies. In these studies, AquiPor material exhibited the capability to consistently filter over 80% of total suspended solids found in stormwater, exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s threshold for basic water treatment.

We’ve also established supply, manufacturing, and end-user relationships while developing key insights specific to our markets. We feel poised to capitalize on the opportunity in front of us.

Our highly adaptable and widely applicable Intellectual Property rights allow us to be equally flexible in our business model — through two main revenue streams:

Licensing

AquiPor is bolstered by intellectual properties that provide security and stability for future growth. As part of our growth plan, we intend to sub-license our technology to existing paver manufacturers, allowing them to manufacture new products using AquiPor technology. We estimate earning royalties on each unit produced and believe our technology will be rapidly adopted. The concrete paver market has well-established distribution channels and we see this being a robust business for us as we establish key channel partnerships in the industry. 

Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Management (E.P.C.M.) Contracting

While the licensing model shows great promise for our Company, we are also developing a business model in which AquiPor serves as a specialty contractor on large municipal and private stormwater projects. We anticipate tapping into vast sums of capital that are projected to be poured into water-focused infrastructure projects in the coming years. 

As an Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Management contractor, we will oversee the manufacturing, engineering, and construction of professionally designed “AquiDrain” systems in the public right-of-way, which is engineered and designed with our materials. We will garner a royalty for the management of each project. This horizontally integrated E.P.C.M. (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Management) model is not currently employed in any meaningful way in the stormwater market and we see huge potential in this model. With nearly 1,000,000 miles of urban arterials in the U.S., we see tremendous potential for this model on large stormwater projects and we have activated large-scale supply relationships to satisfy expected demand.

People have tried for years to create a permeable pavement that can stand up to the wear and tear of cities and still filter stormwater cleanly back to nature. AquiPor’s innovative material represents a technology change event in permeable pavements. Unlike past attempts at permeable construction materials, we believe our technology is capable of scaling in revolutionary ways that will offer an efficient and environmentally conscious approach to water management. AquiPor is positioned to take the industry by storm.

Through intense R&D cycles, AquiPor has been able to create a new technology and process for producing permeable pavement material that greatly exceeds the performance characteristics of existing solutions. Our aim from day 1 has been to develop an industry-defining product that can help solve the stormwater issues that are so prevalent in our cities. Our technologies are proving to be innovative “firsts” in construction materials.

Effectively managing stormwater is the key to improving water quality in US cities. As cities turn to new approaches like green stormwater infrastructure, a massive market opportunity has emerged that is yet to be addressed at any meaningful scale — because the technology and approach hasn’t existed to make this possible...until now.

We are focused on bringing our green technology to cities all over the country in an effort to become the premier solution in on-site stormwater management.

We believe that we have the technology, the people, and the momentum to solve a real-world problem surrounding clean water. 

We are asking you to join the AquiPor team on our mission to help bring  infrastructure into the 21st century. Water is one of the most valuable natural resources in the world. The challenges presented by urbanization, climate change, and dilapidated infrastructure are stressing our clean waterways like never before. The challenge is great, but, the opportunity to make a difference is equally large.

Come along with us as we bring our proprietary technology to market in an effort to reshape the way we think about urban water management.

AquiPor’s founders, advisers, and early investors form a team of gritty entrepreneurs and industry professionals that represent leadership in construction management, building materials, heavy civil contracting, mining, finance, and stormwater infrastructure. We believe we have assembled a team perfectly fitted to our mission of bringing scalable water management solutions to cities around the country.