The Dutch Postcode Lottery and Cradle to Cradle competitions have had some amazing finalists this year.
The winner this year's Postcode Lottery Green Challenge was BioMason’s CO2-free brick production process, which uses bacteria to ‘grow’ bricks! Can't wait to see these around, especially given the amount of embodied energy in a conventional brick.
The other finalists in the American Cradle to Cradle competition include:- MushroomR Insulation – a green replacement for plastic foams, which combines agricultural byproducts with fungal mycelium to ‘grow’ structural rigid insulation
- Bellwether Materials’ Softbatts – sheep’s wool insulation
- GR Green Building Products’ Green CedarTM and Green SlateTM – synthetic roofing and cladding materials made from waste limestone and recycled plastic milk bottles and shopping bags
- Dutch Design Initiative’s reinforced wood wool cement board (pdf link)
- Ecococon’s straw panels
- Haplobuilt’s Haploblocks – a small scale prefabricated building system (pdf link)
- EcorR Universal Construction Panels made using waste cellulose fibre.
Great to see such a wide range of ideas being brought forward to help reduce our embodied energy associated with new builds, extensions and also some refurbishment.
The winner this year's Postcode Lottery Green Challenge was BioMason’s CO2-free brick production process, which uses bacteria to ‘grow’ bricks! Can't wait to see these around, especially given the amount of embodied energy in a conventional brick.
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