Built by Nature to award €500,000 in first global prize focused on biobased construction materials
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
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The Built by Nature Prize aims to identify and attract biobased construction material manufacturers and their market-ready innovations from all regions and help those producers overcome barriers to mainstream market entry.
Key Points:
- The Built by Nature Prize aims to identify and attract biobased construction material manufacturers and their market-ready innovations from all regions and help those producers overcome barriers to mainstream market entry.
- We urgently need to find innovative, renewable, low-carbon construction materials to radically reduce the embodied carbon footprint of new buildings and cities."
- Mae-ling Lokko, from Ghana and the Philippines, is Assistant Professor at Yale University's School of Architecture, specialising in agrowaste and biobased materials.
- Interested applicants are encouraged to visit the Built by Nature Prize website for full details: https://builtbn.org/prize .