JW Eco-Technology

JW Eco-Technology’s capability to restore and improve the environment is one of a kind.  

While global warming and abnormal climates have led cities to become the core of disasters, JW Eco-Technology simultaneously solves numerous environmental problems by creating pores for roads to allow the Earth to breathe, which forms a resilient JW Eco-pavement Wetland Ecosystem. Allowing roads to become reservoirs, air purifiers, water purifiers, air conditioners, and farmland by using JW Eco-Technology would be the best way to adapt climate change.   

JW Eco-Technology allows temperature decreasing during summer, snow melting during winter, water storing on islands, and water-generating/oasis-creating in deserts.  

Hence, it is a technology that covers the requirements of a vast variety of individuals, ranging from environmentalists to the general public and billions of our future generations.

Water is one of the most critical resources for human beings, and it is also an irreplaceable necessity. 

However, today the world faces severe flooding, water shortage and pollution issues, i.e. a dilemma of water being "too much, too scarce, and too dirty ". The United Nations has warned that 1.8 billion people will face water shortages by 2025, and 47 percent of the population will live in areas with severe water shortages by 2030.

A new age of global warming, abnormal weathers, and natural disasters has come. Under this trend, urban development, concentration of population, and traditional construction methods have led cities to become the core of disasters and major environmental problems. These problems need solutions urgently.

In particular, modern roads have enclosed Earth’s surfaces, causing humans to live on enclosed and necrotic surfaces which lead to urban hazards, such as heat island effects and air pollution. 

JW Eco-pavement Wetland Ecosystems, which are built with JW Eco-Technology, allows water and air to freely circulate in and out of Earth's surface and captures pollutants.  This achieves the natural circulation of water, air, temperature and soil (pollutants), namely the regulation of nature’s four elements, maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Pollutants (including dust, carbon dioxide) can be purified and converted into organic matters within the JW Eco-pavement Wetland Ecosystem and support the growth of vegetation. 

Benefits of the JW Eco-pavement Wetland Ecosystem lie within its nature-based principles, which allows it to operate freely without the need of external force. Once the JW Eco-Pavement is constructed, its underground ecosystem will be activated immediately to carry out ecological restoration and form the underground JW Eco-Pavement Wetland Ecosystem, with functions of disaster prevention and decontamination. 

Moreover, the JW Eco-pavement Wetland Ecosystem is protected by its concrete surface layer, allowing it to withstand extreme weathers, which conventional ecological methods cannot bear. JW Eco-Technology provides a revolutionary way for developed /developing cities to coexist with nature’s circulation, so as to build a sustainable, resilient, and pollution-free living environment for humans.

JW Eco-Technology has a wide range of applications, where anyone in any country in the world who encounters habitational environmental problems is a potential beneficiary. 

JW Eco-Technology provides a state-of-the-art capability to restore and improve the environment and is the only engineering method in the world that causes no side-effect to the environment. 

In current severe environmental conditions, JW Eco-Technology forms a river underneath our roads, allowing the temperature to decrease during summer, snow melting during winter, water-storing on islands, and water-generating/oasis-creating in deserts.

With a water permeability rate higher than 12500mm/hr, JW Eco-Pavement can conserve a large amount of water to solve flooding/drought problems.  It also helps to form a sustainable and rich underground ecosystem by promoting natural aeration. 

Our research indicates under JW Eco-pavements, the soil moisture (21.5%) is more than twice that of soil and other permeable pavements, and the total organic carbon content (1.1%) is more than twice. JW Eco-pavements also show the best microbial activity (average well-color development) and diversity (Shannon evenness J).  

Whereas clean water quality is proven with high dissolved oxygen (7.7mg/L) and low ammonia nitrogen contents. 

JW Eco-Technology has been commercially available for more than 10 years and has been implemented in more than 1,000 projects, throughout public works and private projects.  It has been mainly used in pavement projects like parking lots, parks, sidewalks, hills, riversides, farmlands. 

At present, the business model of JW Eco-Technology is its holistic service of engineering projects, including evaluation, design, construction, maintenance, etc... 

It should be noted that JW Eco-Technology is a fully self-developed technology and the current business model is capable of generating profit to support expenses of R&D and marketing. Therefore, JW Eco-Technology is proven as a commercially successful model. 

JW Eco-Technology is revolutionary as the best and most holistic adapting solution for climate change. JW Eco-Pavement created by JW Eco-Technology is a revolutionary permeable pavement that can simultaneously achieve multiple functions that support human civilization and nature’s way. Artificial infrastructure now can co-exist with water in harmony by implementing JW Eco-Technology. 
Benefits have been scientifically proven with evidence, including mitigating climate warming and adapting to climate change and achieve cooling, flood/drought prevention, carbon capture, and other multiple benefits. These benefits are unachievable with traditional regulations, standards, engineering methods, technologies and products. These breakthroughs are far beyond the imagination of current global construction standards, academic content, and conventional thinking.

Since its rollout, JW Eco-Technology has been recognized internationally by numerous awards, especially the Global Road Achievement Award in 2017, suggesting professional recognition from the road industry. The awarding organization, the International Road Federation (IRF), specially featured JW Eco-Technology, recognizing it as a "revolutionary permeable pavement".

JW Eco-Technology can be applied to public works and infrastructures, such as schools, parks, and roads, serving numerous/various users. On the basis of our 1000+ completed public work projects, it is estimated to serve a population of more than one million in total. It's expected to serve more than 1.5 million people as total cumulatively in one year, and 5 million people within 5 years cumulatively.

JW Eco-Technology is a resilient infrastructure solution meeting SDG criteria, including:

SDG1.5: Build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events

SDG2.4: Ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and that progressively improve land and soil quality

SDG3.9: Substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from air, water and soil pollution and contamination

SDG6.1: Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

SDG9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all

SDG11.5: Significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations

SDG12.2: Achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

SDG13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

SDG14.1: Prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution 

 SDG15.3:Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.

Full-time staffs : 10

Part-time staff: 20

Contractors: 20

Ding Tai Co., Ltd. is one of the global leaders in road landscape and environmental Eco-technology and was established in Taiwan in 1990.  Ding Tai Co., Ltd.'s business scope mainly focuses on research, marketing and management of intellectual property rights and develops JW Eco-Technology as its main project.  JW Eco-Technology is the brainchild of Mr. Jui-Wen Chen and Mr. Ting-hao Chen and owns dozens of excellent international patents and countless received international medals.  JW Eco-Technology has been viewed as one of the most important green achievements for environmental improvement.  Ding Tai Co., Ltd. is the practitioner of JW Eco-Technology to replace conventional paving methods with this revolutionary innovation.  

Ding Tai is committed to inclusion and diversity to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more diverse our team is, the better we can achieve our mission of solving world challenges.

As of June 2021, out of 10 full-time Ding Tai staff, 50 percent are women based on self-reporting.

JW Eco-Technology is ambitious in providing a global solution for resilient ecosystem. The JW Eco-Pavement is a revolutionary permeable pavement that can simultaneously achieve multiple functions that support human civilization and nature’s way. By implementing JW Eco-Technology, infrastructures will be able to co-exist with water in harmony and is a total solution for mitigating global warming and adapting to climate change, providing scientifically proven benefits like temperature cooling, flood/drought prevention, carbon capture, and so on.

MIT Solve Incubator can provide significant support in promoting JW Eco-Technology as a more internationally recognized solution to environmental problems. People in undeveloped areas will find that the building of JW Eco-green infrastructure can improve the environment and human life at the same time; whereas people in developed cities will find the building of JW Eco-green infrastructures can solve the three major environmental disasters of the city, namely, flood/drought, pollution and heat island effect, and achieve sustainable development. With JW Eco-Technology, people's creativity will be inspired to solve their environment problems and substantially improve their life.

As a solution provider, JW Eco-Technology would highly appreciate the support and coordination from MIT Solve in the matchmaking of users and funds, so as to work together with local organizations to solve water resource problems.

Specific support may include:

a. Advocate among others through MIT Solve to spread international awareness of JW Eco-Technology and ecological disaster prevention practice and show benefits.

b. Implement and share JW ecological expertise and heritage in line with local needs.

c. Gather each international NGO Group, MIT Solve Members, business owners, the developed countries, developing countries, and other parties to invest in JW Eco-Technology.

State authorities, media, UN organizations, such as UN Water, and major international organizations, such as Coca Cola.

Climate refugee issues are mainly caused by agriculture and damage. Sustainable agriculture would be the most suitable industry for potential marginal groups to achieve self-sufficiency and prevent derivative risks caused by their weakened in economy, and water is very critical in agricultural development. With JW Eco-pavement, people in water-scarce areas can easily access to clean water. Zhangjiakou Project has demonstrated that JW Eco-Technology can provide the ecological function of agriculture and greening, as well as solve the problems of food shortage, habitats degradation, and climate refugees.

JW Eco-Technology serves as a holistic solution of water resources necessary for the development of sustainable communities.  It simultaneously achieves benefits including flood control, water infiltration, water storage, and water purification. Water resources can be completely recycled and purified on-site, where one drop of water can be re-used numerous times, achieving sustainable water sources and establishing an ecological system and agriculture.

For example, the establishment of "sponge" community. Zhong Zheng Community was severely affected by flooding, but at the same time, it was also in need of sustainable water resources as well. ‘Since implementing JW Eco-Technology to construct underground reservoirs, ZhongZheng Community has never suffered from flooding, nor run out of water resources, the community is now an environmental education site.
Climate refugee issues are mainly caused by damaged agriculture loss. Sustainable agriculture would be the most suitable industry for potential marginal groups to achieve self-sufficiency and prevent derivative risks caused by their weakened in economy, and water is very critical in agricultural development. With JW pavement, people in water-scarce areas can easily access to clean water. Zhangjiakou Project has demonstrated that JW Eco-Technology can provide the ecological function of agriculture and greening, as well as solve the problems of food shortage, habitats degradation, and climate refugees. 

JW Eco-Technology is the best way to restore ecology in harsh terrain. Practical examples have proved that JW Eco-Technology can be applied for greening, and even for planting trees and vegetation on concrete surfaces, so as to create urban farmland and a green economy.

JW Eco-Technology can stabilize the soil with its structure, provide a solid foundation for plant growth and nourishment. Strong concrete surfaces reduce the chance of trees being blown down by strong wind. In addition, JW Eco-Technology can generate its own water and form an underground ecosystem, which can promote the growth of plants in the JW Eco Gravel layer and anchoring the soil, improving the survival rate of planting. The tree shade protects the concrete, so it can be applied to beaches or other rough terrains. 

JW Eco-Technology can be used to plant mangroves on coastal areas for creating aquaculture fisheries, achieving soil and water conservation, reducing coastal area erosion. Meanwhile, JW Eco-Technology can purify pollution from land-based activities, especially nutrient pollution, to prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in line with SDG 14.1.

JW Eco-Technology is proved to be a new model of carbon capture and air purification on roads, able to capture more than 70% of CO2 emissions and other automobile pollutants within 20 minutes (Liu). JW Eco-Technology applies two different sized pipes which creates pressure difference and generates natural upward and downward air circulation. Pollutants and CO2 drop underground and are absorbed and utilized in the alkaline wetland environment. Our research showed the total organic carbon content (1.1%) under JW Eco-Pavement was more than twice that of soil and other permeable pavement. What JW Eco-Technology does is bring the carbon cycle back to normal, where CO2 is no longer a waste.

Compared with carbon reduction measures that have a negative impact on economic growth, JW Eco-Technology is a blue ocean strategy that actively prevents gases including CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Moreover, JW Eco-Technology is applied on roads that need renovation regularly, thus it has a minimum impact on existing economic behavior. JW Eco-Technology has also been certified as a "Low Carbon Method" by LCBA (Low Carbon Building Alliance). The carbon emission for the traffic lane and sidewalk using JW Eco-Technology are 1.93 and 1.36 kgCO2e/m2/yr, respectively, in terms of 78% and 84% reduction compared with the baseline value. It proves that JW Eco-Technology can effectively reduce the carbon footprint resulted in practical energy saving and carbon reduction. On the basis of 100,000 square meters of pavements and lanes, 1.472 million kgCO2 can be reduced annually.

JW Eco-Technology is the best way to restore ecology in harsh terrain. Practical examples have proved that JW Eco-Technology can be applied for greening, and even for planting trees and vegetation on concrete surfaces, so as to create urban farmland and a green economy.

JW Eco-Technology can stabilize the soil with its structure, provide a solid foundation for plant growth and nourishment. Strong concrete surfaces reduce the chance of trees being blown down by strong wind. In addition, JW Eco-Technology can generate its own water and form an underground ecosystem, which can promote the growth of plants in the JW Eco Gravel layer and anchoring the soil, improving the survival rate of planting. The tree shade protects the concrete, so it can be applied to beaches or other rough terrains. 

JW Eco-Technology can be used to plant mangroves on coastal areas for creating aquaculture fisheries, achieving soil and water conservation, reducing coastal area erosion. Meanwhile, JW Eco-Technology can purify pollution from land-based activities, especially nutrient pollution, to prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in line with SDG 14.1.