10 Eco-Friendly Building Materials | Sustainable Design
Here are some alternative and eco-friendly building materials which can replace concrete and steel. These sustainable materials come from sources you would never have thought such as seaweed, mushrooms and even coffee. They allow designers and engineers to construct green buildings with a low carbon footprint.
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Cork
Kirsten Dirksen / YouTube
DeZeen
Roberto Conte
Schweiger Vineyards / YouTube
Jamie Goode / YouTube
Gui Rebelo
Coffee Husk
Woodpecker WPC / YouTube
Huskee Cup / YouTube
TvAgro/ YouTube
Artisan Tropic / YouTube
Newspaper Wood
Vij5
DeZeen / YouTube
Pennings Foundation / YouTube
Bradford Council / YouTube
Company New Heroes / YouTube
Newspaperwood.com
Mycellium
MycoWorks Media / YouTube
Nathan Finkel / YouTube
Yanko Design / YouTube
Fernando Guerra
Knowwaste
Knowaste / YouTube
Tiny House Giant Journey / YouTube
Plastic Bricks
UN Environmental Programme / YouTube
African insider / YouTube
Reuters / YouTube
Seaweed
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/02/the-seaweed-houses-of-ls-island.html
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Nice lecture. Gave me an insight into eco friendly building materials which were unknown to me before. Thanks again
Which is your favourite material?
Seaweed
Make a part 2 and I’ll subscribe. This was amazing! Will be such a huge help with designing the game I’m working on.
Especially love the cork, plastic bricks, polyurethane, and seaweed ones! Gives me answers to designing types of starting housing in all terrains! Plus a way for ppl to reuse plastics in the future.
Plastic problems are insane.
This is where our tax dollars should be going instead of into bombs make our country green again
Very cool video!!! I did an eco-friendly renovation before and looking forward to my next project being an 100% eco-friendly built home ❤❤❤❤
work on your sound production,cant even hear anything.
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Brilliant
https://youtu.be/cgerb0C_zLU?feature=shared
Love love love!!!❤
sekam kopi dengan plastik yg di daur ulang. lebih kuat dan lebih kering dibanding sekam lainnya. tahan hama dan kelembaban sekam kopi itu diambil dari kulit biji kopi yg mengering dan rontok selama proses pemanggangan sebelom diperosesan terakhir. jadi dibuang
These are all amazing materials that are new to me, apart from cob.
The energy producing algae seems to have a lot of possibilities.
https://easyylifez.blogspot.com/2023/06/title-embracing-sustainability-pathway.html
material favoritku: seaweed! because it is edible 😋
I’m working on a sustainable architecture unit with my 10th graders and this video provides purposeful suggestions.
Great content
Transformation and evolution
The narrator states that over 6.3 Trillion tons of paper is thrown away each year.
However, our research has shown that total paper usage in the UK is 12.5 Million tons.
There seems to be an error in your interesting video.
https://youtu.be/cgerb0C_zLU?feature=shared
If we taxed companies for their trash they would make these kinds of businesses for profit motives alone.
This sounds like a college/high-school project. No one is going to use Cob or Cork. Just stop buying the newest electronics. And don’t buy EVs. Stop buying products with single use plastics, stop buying cosmetics. Stop buying a new car and fix the one you have. Alot of things start with the individual.
I had no clue cork, coffee husks, and mushrooms could be used for building! the only part I’m conflicted with is the algae power, I would prefer would be is to start implementing molten salt reactors using thorium(233)-uranium(233) cycles and implement more resources into fusion energy, as both produce obscene amounts of power and are a much more sustainable source than fossil fuel plants and produce less waste than traditional Uranium reactors, there’s even reactors being made that can recycle spent nuclear waste from other reactors
No mention of wood?
Add us to plastic bricks! 90% plastic waste, 10% construction waste and stronger than concrete. ♻
Thanks for the effort to research
Excellent
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No bamboo?
Excellent future
Its interesting how as soon as a "cheap" eco material is discovered it is turned into a luxury product as companies capitalize on consumers desire to be more ecofriendly.
I think the real lesson here is to focus on using locally available materials as building solutions. The reason many products are not sustainable is because of how much we use which causes an imbalance in the ecosystem. If we say cork is the new global material, over harvesting will occur and it will no longer sustainable. Same goes with seaweed, and all the other materials listed in this video.
https://youtu.be/jRZwd1rMSoA?si=EreN4GrXI-_2SfPb
isn’t cork an endangered species? ?
Jute is another eco friendly material that can be used to make different stuff.
Nice informative video, well done. Cork was my favorite material.
but is it load bearing?
I would like to see more videos on plastic bricks. It is relatively low-tech and it could kill 2 birds with one stone, provided that it has sufficient fire resistance.
Excellent future
Does anyone know if there is a fire resistant Paper or cloth that a person could use to create pouch or cover for a loose-fill insulation? Is hemp fire resistant or is there a material with a cardboard type thickness?
This deserves more views!
I think the green algae building would be practical.
I’m actually so interested in all of these, especially mushroom, bamboo potential, hempcrete, cob and green algae
This was so eye-opening! I learned so much about eco-friendly alternatives to traditional building materials.
amazing 💚
Sorry but climate change is a myth as science will tell you.
Very cool video!!! I did an eco-friendly renovation before and looking forward to my next project being an 100% eco-friendly built home