Pop up city Contest
Video / May 28, 2025
Transcript
Narrator
The Pop up city contest challenged innovators to build more efficient, integrated and green energy, water and waste management solutions for camps used by the Canadian Armed Forces.
Maj Guillaume Hébert
Once power generation, water production and waste management is taken care of, I would say that the heart of the camps is well taken of, and the soldiers that are employed can actually do their job.
Aarya Shahsavar
The problem we're actually solving is "how do you support a soldier or person anywhere on earth, completely off grid, ultimately, and so what we did was we looked at that problem by taking a step up and looking at how the outputs from one system aren't exactly a waste is some categories, it could be an input to something else.
Mark Canning
We designed it specifically to reduce consumables, maintenance, startup time, and other aspects that would allow us to take up the least space, and also operate as easily as possible.
Dr. Ramona Pristavita
We have another technology named, which is taking any dirty water, whether it is black water, grey water, and converting it into portable water and non-portable water.
Raymond Rand
We are replacing the power generated by the diesel fuel, with power generated by the solar devices and the wind devices.
Aarya Shahsavar
Basically what we've developed here is the first step towards an actual sustainable long term solution that involves circularizing multiple aspects that help support troops in the field, but also has applications beyond defence and into civilian applications.
Maj Guillaume Hébert
The smaller the footprint, the more efficient you are, the better it is for both the local resources and the employed forces.