Pop up City Contest

Integrating Energy, Water and Waste Management Systems for Deployed Camps

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Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program.

Contest: Pop Up City!

The Challenge: design and build a temporary camp prototype for the Canadian Armed Forces to operate in temperate conditions and that integrates management systems for… energy, water, waste.

The solution must also be: capable of supporting Canadian Armed Forces operations, effective in allowing our Forces to respond quickly in remote areas, scalable for up to 1,500 personnel, designed to be transportable.

Solutions can be new and innovative ideas, and/or modifications to existing systems.

Funding will be provided in various forms:

Round 1 – Up to 10 prizes of $10K for the best proposal for each technical domain

Round 2 – Up to 10 prizes of $50K for the best integrated proposal

Round 3 – The IDEaS program will provide funding to help build innovative prototypes

Round 4 – A grand prize of $2M for the winning prototype

Visit Canada.ca/Defence-IDEaS for more info or to submit a proposal.

Congratulations to our Round 2 winners! Each winner will receive a $50,000 prize and will be invited to participate in the Round 3 Pitch Event taking place in March 2021. See below for a full list of Round 2 winners.

Integrated Solution Title	Team Members	Technical Domain
Circular City - Integrated Power, Water, and Waste Solution for Relocatable Temporary Camps	Innocorps Research Corporation	Water
	Pop Up City Inc.	Energy
	Southern Alberta Institute of Technology	Solid Waste
	Solution-Darcom Innovations Inc	Liquid Waste
SNC-Lavalin Integrated Utility Management System (IUMS)	SNC-Lavalin Inc	Waste
	Reveau Technologies and Solutions Inc	Water
	Ascent System Technologies	Energy
	Growing Greener Innovations, Inc. (GGI)	Energy
	Rival Lab Inc	Energy
	NOMAD Micro Homes	Waste
	Bluemetric	Waste
DEW Camp Sustainment (DCS) System	DEW Engineering and Development ULC - Team Lead	Energy
	Osorno Enterprises Inc.	Liquid Waste
	Innocorps Research Corporation	Water
	Southern Alberta Institute of Technology	Solid Waste
On-Site Resource Generation Solution for Military Camps	Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc.	Waste
	Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc.	Water
	Tugliq Energie Co.	Energy
Robust, Efficient Solutions for Pop Up City	ATCO Frontec Ltd.	Water
	ATCO Frontec Ltd.	Waste
	ATCO Frontec Ltd.	Energy
Technologically Efficient Solutions for Pop Up City	ATCO Frontec Ltd.	Water
	ATCO Frontec Ltd.	Waste
	ATCO Frontec Ltd.	Energy

Congratulations to our Round 1 winners! Each winner will receive a $10,000 prize and are invited to participate in Round 2 as well as present their innovative solution at an integration partnering event. Here is a list of Round 1 prize recipients:

Domain	Proposal Title	Company Name
Energy	Autonomous Mobile Energy System	0939292 B.C. LTD. (Ascent Systems Technologies)
Energy	Augmented Combined Heat and Power	1232404 B.C. LTD
Energy	Multi-Fuel Generator	2533609 Ontario Inc. (Teznic)
Energy	ATCO Pop Up City Energy Solution: Transportable Hybrid Microgrid	ATCO Frontec Ltd.
Energy	LPWAN Monitoring for Deployed Camps - Real Time Operational Analysis for Efficiency Gains	CityKinect Inc
Energy	DEW RTC Cooling, Heating, and Electrical Management System (CHEMS)	DEW Engineering and Development ULC
Energy	Electricity generation from any heat source with external heat engines	Ekstera Inc.
Energy	Deployable Modular Micro Grid System	Frobisher Energy Services LTD.
Energy	High-Efficiency Modular DC-Coupled Microgrid for Military Camp	Governors of University of Alberta
Energy	Grengine™ Power System	Growing Greener Innovations, Inc. (GGI)
Energy	The Tri-fuel power generation and energy storage system - using Hydrogen Diesel and Natural Gas	Orbital Farm Inc.
Energy	SEM Camp	Pop Up City Inc.
Energy	Modular, off the grid, power generator that operates on temperature differential	Proteus Systems Inc.
Energy	Hybrid low-Inertia Turbine Storage System (HITTS)	Rival-lab
Energy	SHES - Smart Hybrid Energy System	Ryerson University (BeTOP)
Energy	Hybrid Solar System Energy Solution with Heat Storage and Recovery	Solar Photonics Inc.
Energy	Advanced Integrated Offgrid Energy Platform	Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Energy	Microréseau hybride - Intégration d'énergie renouvelable modulable	Tugliq Energie S.A.R.F
Energy	LiMO - Less in More Out	WM Design Solutions Inc.
Waste	ATCO Pop Up City Waste Solution: Advanced Modular Wastewater Treatment System	ATCO Frontec Ltd.
Waste	Mobile Wastewater Treatment Plant (MWWTP)	BluMetric Environmental Inc.
Waste	Salle de Filtration Ecologique	Darcom Innovations Inc.
Waste	Electrochemical Processing Technologies	1232404 B.C. LTD
Waste	Sedna: High efficiency containerized treatment of RTC wastewater	Eyes of the Shepherdess Inc.
Waste	SMARTCYCLE Wastewater Treatment and Reuse	HCT Sustainables Limited
Waste	Conversion of wet and dry waste streams to energy and clean water using Supercritical water oxidation technology.	Linden Water Inc.
Waste	NOMAD Modular Sewer Treatment (NOMAD MST)	NOMAD Micro Homes Inc.
Waste	Containerized mobile packaged sewage treatment plant with sludge collection system, and integrated solar power.	Osorno Enterprises Inc.
Waste	Wastewater Management Solution	SNC-Lavalin Inc.
Waste	Waste and Waste-Water Recycling System	Solar Photonics Inc.
Waste	Remote Ecological Waste Upgrade and Recovery System	Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Waste	Integrated Solid and Liquid Waste Treatment Solution	Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc.
Waste	Closed-loop waste and wastewater treatment	University of Waterloo
Water	Potable Water replenishment from waste water	11680136 Canada Inc
Water	ATCO Pop Up City Water Solution: Modular Fixed Film Wastewater Treatment System	ATCO Frontec Ltd.
Water	Hybrid Solar-Thermal Membrane Distillation Process for Water Recycling and Reuse for RTCs	Concordia University
Water	Comprehensive water treatment technology using spent coffee grounds	Governors of University of Alberta
Water	Reducing supplied potable water for RTCs through enhanced water recovery and direct potable reuse of wastewater	Innocorps Research Corporation
Water	Reduction of water usage by treating RTC black water using Supercritical water oxidation technology	Linden Water Inc.
Water	Novel Electrocoagulation Approach for Greywater Treatment to Reduce Potable Water Requirements	Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc.
Water	Integrated Scalable Renewable Powered Water Treatment Systems	TMBNExtrados Inc
Water	Water Recycling Hydrogels for Portable Water Management	University of PEI

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) must be ready to deploy on short notice, in any climate and for prolonged periods. The CAF presently relies on Relocatable Temporary Camps (RTCs) for its deployments that sustain personnel through demanding operational and environmental conditions.

The Department of National Defence’s (DND) Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program is calling innovators on to propose and develop solutions that provide integrated energy, water and waste management systems for the CAF’s RTCs deployed in national and international operations.

The “Pop up City” Contest is a multi-phased contest for innovators to propose and develop reliable, energy efficient, integrated and scalable energy, water and waste management systems for RTCs. Contests are a competitive means of finding innovative solutions and awarding prizes to the best solutions derived from the innovation community. Specifically, this Contest is seeking solutions designed to manage the energy, water and waste needs of a 150 to 1,500-person RTC, operating in a temperate climate zone.

To standardize the required performance capacity for system designs, contestants will be supplied with per capita data for energy and water consumption, and waste production, along with representative annual climate data, including wind and solar patterns. Contestants will be asked to provide scalable solutions that can supply the requirements of RTCs over a 12-month period in this climate zone. System designs which would also allow for the occasional deployment to extreme hot and/or frigid climatic zones are strongly encouraged.

How it works

The Contest consists of four competitive rounds that contestants will pass through for a chance to win a grand prize of $2.0 million. Each round is designed to progress towards the development of a functioning and testable prototype integrated solution, capable of delivering the desired outcomes of the Contest.

Prizes will be awarded in each Round of the Contest. Awards for Rounds 1, 2, and 4 will be in the form of a grant. In Round 3, finalists will receive funding in the form of a contribution agreement.

Round 1 Individual solutions

Submission of proposals for each technical domain

Contestant eligibility established

Expert evaluation

Up to 10 Contestants for each technical domain to receive a $10,000 grant to continue to Round 2

Round 2 Integrated Solutions

Grant recipients from Round 1 continue

Partnering event

Submission of integrated solutions

Expert evaluation

Up to 10 Semi-finalist teams to receive a $50,000 grant to continue to Round 3

Round 3 PITCH & Prototype Development

Grant recipients from Round 2 continue

Pitch event

Expert evaluation

Up to 3 finalist teams eligible for a contribution of up to $1,500,000 for the development of a prototype and to continue to Round 4

Round 4 PROTOTYPE Testing

Contribution recipients from Round 3 continue

Testing of prototypes

Technical evaluation

Selection of grand prize winner

Grand prize of $2,000,000

Who is eligible?

To be eligible contestants must be a legal entity duly incorporated and validly existing in Canada, including:

a. Canadian post-secondary institutions;

b. Incorporated Canadian not-for-profit organizations or associations;

c. Provincial/territorial, municipal government organizations;

d. Incorporated Canadian for-profit companies, organizations or associations;

e. Any group, cluster or consortium composed of eligible recipients.

Federal government departments/agencies and federal and provincial Crown Corporations and their employees are not eligible for participation in this Contest.

The IDEaS Program will request a contestant to demonstrate its eligibility. Contestants who fail to demonstrate eligibility will not be considered in the From the Ground Up Contest

Conditions of eligibility

How do I apply?

Detailed Instructions on how to apply can be found in Section 2.12 of the Contest Program Guide

What is the deadline to apply?

To be considered, contestants must submit a Contest Application Form (Round 1) and a signed Declaration form, and any supporting documentation or information to demonstrate eligibility as required, via the contestant’s Canada Post connect account no later than December 13, 2019.

Reference documents

Program Guide

Application Form [PDF, 59KB]

Declaration Form [PDF, 150KB]

Contest Q’s & A’s

Information Session

For the purposes of this Contest, temperature, precipitation, daylight and wind data obtained for Brandon, Manitoba, should be used for all design considerations and calculations.

Climate data

Wind data

Daylight data

Electrical load profile data