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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Thumbnail photos-
CSK Architects (top left), Jörg-Dieter Langhans/Flickr (top right), The Living (bottom left), Cob Cottage Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada (bottom right)
Videos-
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

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

[randyero]

These ideas will save the present and future Earth♻️🌱🌎

[tomkelly]

I live in Canada and have built 2 straw bale homes with clay/lime plasters on the walls, one with recycled newspaper for insulation all around, recycled tire and plastic bottle roofs, 2 log homes, and a number of other alternatives. Now I find that my favourite materials to work with are reused ones. Taking down an old structure and saving the tin from the roof, refurbishing old doors and windows, reusing lumber, bricks and concrete blocks, etc. The alternatives in here are likely very very expensive or very very labour intensive. They will not catch on because of that. They will always be niche products unless they can be made as easy to install and for very low prices. Homes are already very expensive. Making them more expensive is not sustainable unfortunately. Massive scaling needs to happen to a product to ensure wide spread use.

That being said, nothing will change without innovation so please people keep innovating, you may just make the breakthrough needed to save the world and reintroduce harmony between humans and the environment

[coolioso]

This was interesting to watch and learn. I think one other sustainable material that needs more attention is hemp! It is an extremely versatile crop, can be grown pretty much anywhere in the world and not just useable for building materials but food, medicine, eco-plastic and clothing!

[panduii]

These are all amazing materials that are new to me, apart from cob.
The energy producing algae seems to have a lot of possibilities.

[oluwatenioladisu]

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.

[christinaandersen]

This is so amazing! My favorite at the moment would be the polyurethane plant based foam. Absolutely NOT plastic! It must be a material that can "breath" and not make damage to your health while living in it. Thanx a lot for this informative video. All the best to you.

[LiAlcie]

This is so amazing, I'm excited to learn about more sustainable materials and make my projects with them.

[JuteBagTrainingClass]

This is exactly what we need.. Thanks people

[myriamkaye]

Cork really? Cork only grows in one tiny portion of the world. The wine industry is moving away from cork because it was becoming scarce and expensive.

[manghudart]

Thanks for the effort to research, edit and share this to us all! Stay safe!

[monkpool]

This is giving me hope for humanity again

[chensamujakorn]

Great content👏👏 hope this video may reach more people.

[tomcrennan]

This video is great guys. I’m surprised you don’t have more subscribers. Huge fan of your channel

[rmt]

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.

[wsnxook]

Very cool video!!! I did an eco-friendly renovation before and looking forward to my next project being an 100% eco-friendly built home

[phsycd]

The mushroom one... It's insane....

[Yippeedee]

I'm working on a sustainable architecture unit with my 10th graders and this video provides purposeful suggestions.

[APLES]

This video very useful for me because I can learn various sustainable metarials! Thank you for videos like this🥰🥰
When I learned that coffe husk is one of the sustainable metarials, I was so surprised😳 I have never thought that it could be a metarial for architecture🤔

[lordplanet]

Building materials include earthbag, strawbale, Adobe, rammed earth and you can use mushrooms for insulation.

[lorilange]

WOW that's AWESOME !! So practical and self sustaining ....