Why Bio-Based & Rapidly Renewable Building Materials Matter

Defined as building components derived from natural, living organisms (such as plants, fungi, and bacteria), biomaterials are experiencing a renaissance. Beyond the most obvious material (i.e. timber), we are beginning to see a broad range of such products in the built environment.One of the key attractions of such materials is that, when specified appropriately, they support sustainable architecture by reducing embodied carbon and dependence on finite resources.In this session of CPD Live we fo