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CityChanger Max Schade: Building a Future of Straw, Wood & Clay

Karl Dickinson - September 4, 2023

With public demand for sustainability snowballing, it’s inevitable every sector will undergo a green transformation. Construction, however, may not be as advanced as we thought. Max Schade from STROHBOID acts as our guide today,...

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CityChanger Michaela Maresch: Lessons in Modular Construction

Karl Dickinson - December 6, 2021

Modular construction is emerging as a quick and reliable way to build new houses. Although these usually conform to a template, rolled out in their hundreds, Michaela Maresch had the guts to rethink the...

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Guide to Natural Materials in Construction: More Than Hobbit Houses and Mud Huts

Abbie Harby - August 23, 2021

Deep in the depths of the construction world, among the steel, cement and concrete, there are materials hidden, just waiting to be utilised. We’ve put together this guide exhibiting some of the main natural...

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Building Sustainably: How to Get Started with Natural Materials

Abbie Harby - August 26, 2021

A house made of straw, an office block made of timber, or a shopping centre made with hempcrete – you might be thinking that this all sounds very hippyish, but this could be the...

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Notable City Skellefteå: The Sky’s the Limit… in Wood

Karl Dickinson - January 27, 2022

One city in Sweden has been getting a lot of attention. The 20-storey plyscraper Sara kulturhus is one example of how notable city Skellefteå is pioneering the realms of wooden construction, but there’s a...

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Wood: Fact File

Abbie Harby - August 26, 2021

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Well, hopefully just enough to help us construct some superbly sustainable and stunning structures made entirely from wood. It’s not exactly...

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