Vancouver's Michael Green offers an insight into the plant-based construction materials of the future
In the design-build world, the term “sustainable” has taken on an almost mythical quality as architects and builders search for construction techniques that ease the burden on the environment.
“I believe we have very much left the industrial age, and the materials of the industrial age are the dinosaurs of architecture, and we all have to understand and embrace the idea that they’re the dinosaurs.” “It’s the idea of what could be the fifth material that could compete with the big four?” Green said. “What could be the biobased solution?”
“It’s the kind of scale of waste that means we’re using more of the world’s resources in incredibly wasteful ways, which means more energy goes into it and more carbon, fundamentally,” Green said. “We’re trying to follow the essence of what the structure needs and no more, which is exactly what nature does,” he said.
Though research is ongoing into these types of materials, Green said a prototype isn’t yet available for testing, largely because it’s difficult for researchers to get their product to market.
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