Bio-fabrication - Episode 22 | Olivia Page

Construction Disrupted

Carbon neutral, carbon negative, net zero and other similar words are banded around like a dutchie to the left-hand side (one for the younger generation there), with commitments and targets to a more sustainable future set decades away do nothing to help what many believe to be the biggest problem the construction industry faces.

It can be frustrating for everyone involved within the built environment to see organisations set these fanciful targets with no real robust plan of how to achieve them. This isn’t helped by external industry influences occurring within the political realm as well as other pressures from inside the industry itself.

It feels like the focus is always on the coal face of the industry, focusing on what is happening onsite, rather than on the innovative products and services that are integral to achieving such lofty ambitions.

So it’s always refreshing to speak to someone who is looking at product development, taking it right back to the start - from a raw materials perspective and looking to help the built environment, by focusing on the natural environment.

Our guest today is Olivia Page. Olivia’s architectural education and experience have always focused on bio-based and sustainable materials for construction, striving to prove that it is possible to build with a variety of affordable material options that don’t cost the planet.

In January 2022, Olivia co-founded and is now co-CEO of Mykor, a company that creates carbon-negative building materials grown from waste and fungi.

Olivia has also been developing other innovative construction materials from waste and is working on construction-related projects in Portugal.

Topics Covered

- Bio-fabrication - what is this?

- Scalable bio-fabrication

- Are the targets/timeframe set around carbon reduction and achievable within an industry that is slow to change

- The waste onsite issue (and the takeback policy)

- The danger of carbon-neutral products becoming a commodity

- Are we still discovering substances and properties that could take products on a stage further?

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Further Links

https://www.mykor.co.uk/

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