construction materials

‘I turned £6,000 of lockdown savings into a £1.4m glamping business’

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Derry Green, 41, (centre) has seen demand for his glampsite increase since Covid – Lorne Campbell For most of us, success in lockdown has simply meant surviving homeschooling or making a decent loaf of sourdough. However, Derry Green turned a way to entertain his kids in the backyard during the balmy days of 2020 into … Read more

Can we make ‘living buildings’ from fungi? And can they help us adapt to climate change?

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Oyster mushrooms are widely used in research into fungal-based living building materials. (Submitted by UBC Biogene Architecture Lab – image credit) A team of Vancouver academics is combining the fields of microbiology and architecture to create living building materials made from oyster mushrooms and other edible fungi. They say their research into ‘engineered living materials’ … Read more