On the platform. And yet it a lot for, for ways to build better. We have several coming up contribution. Hello. Welcome to eco, india. Im some of that i now concrete is literally the foundation of modern life. The most used material in a built environment. But the list of its negative effects is long, including a colossal Carbon Footprint and waste that talks landfills. A company here in india has come up with an alternative Building Block that makes use of not just one, but 2 types of problematic waste. The ah, in furnace is such as this one includes rot, metal is melted at 1500. 00 degrees celsius and coughed into radius shapes. A material vital to this process is natural sand. Yet after several uses the sand dunes into foundry, dust, grease material that ends up in oakland, um o. Laundry dust is actually oh, hazardous deal, which is a byproduct of industry. It all so many things going things matches have measured which can be how, especially wonderful will be all the science as well as the walk up because this is disposed of without being in a whole bunch space. And if it comes in going backwards really what especially rendered 3 and then what will happen is that we get into the site. This does the flexibility of the site and on so contaminate the ground water money. What, how do you want to come mean the good rap the city often and thats seeking ways to address this huge waste problem. Walk down the bridge in europe. In fact, we will find open dumping on time and waste and all of this problem is leaving as the industrial brain if foundry dust is collected and combined with Plastic Waste in 7030 ratio, you get this a silica plastic block for moneys quantity themed up with up cycles, decorah of the recycling company in on and to create the 1st silica plastic blog in 2018. Each lake up last a glock starts out as a dry mix of crushed plastic waves and foundry. Does this mixture is put through an extruder and comes out the other side in the form of a slutty ready to be moulded into any shape or size required inside my work or add up cycle chuckner the exciting turning heaps of waived into something useful. Hi my, my mother invites say you can make Something Like this from plastic surprises in, well, i didnt understand in my village, nobody imagined we can make Something Like this from this race obvious and surprises them all. Now, like i just opened, once again, this could be a scalable new use for the 3000000 tons of foundry dust. India produces each year using just a 3rd of the energy needed to make conventional bricks or tardy. Have found ways to recycle waste into more places. To whatever you have, everything with the problem when you have everything of a problem. So the waste is also relevant. This is on so we have no food, then we can, were good fight the lab more than can we pick it on . When people are, you can take it to one, tell them trying to get your phone calls and get you put on the model x one. They would add this construction site in on and the silica plastic tiles are being used to waterproof the walls. The heart of upside jacqueline says the tiles work much better than cement what they call me. Im going to assume india brick gum. It usually when you imagine pick him in the 4th thing you think of the water you for securing a part. Boring book is full of water on it or do theres a part of the process. Now what if i told you that instead of the technology that is being used to make all the florida is using water, which is even less than what a family of 4 uses in the month. That is how much this the only amount of water that goes into it. Lea, a lot of the water that goes into the silica plastic blogs are also 2 and a half times stronger than regular breaks of the same price for the good. How you can also reach this farm in the bible to our office. Were stuff will continue this, not picking it, but instead of the opposite is collected does not end but them the top are going to be collected. The collected Plastic Waste is transported kilometers of a to on and for the sake of their plastic is separated in preparation for processing with the foundry dust. While up cycle tucker mostly produces bricks for construction. They create custom product to ah, add to form sauces. To link up laughter, glove service, flooring, furniture and even stationary. So its not, its not, not based on the team. So we end up communication money. You could heidis innovative process of mixing foundry dust with plastic is setting an example for the recycling in the metals and engineering industries. Such circular approaches to industrial byproduct, open up new Economic Opportunities while helping to preserve the environment. Ah, my 2013, the us predict that 60 percent of the global population will live in cities amid the rapid pace of opening and Sustainable Architecture has become a buzzword. But what does it even mean . I report a set off from berlin to find on. Cities are growing, which means we keep on building, but no one else rises with those glossy flat emissions. We all need space to live, but building buildings is terrible for the planet. The Construction Industry counts for almost 40 percent of global c, o. 2 emissions that makes the pace of urban invasion. Pretty alarming. When we heard that one of the worlds Biggest Energy plus apartment buildings was in germany. Well, what do you think we did . Weve come to the most Energy Efficient of them. All that keeps house in frankfort. The building actually generates more energy than it consumes, hence, energy plus and like proper reporters, we just barged into someones house. This is david and he got a lot. Im a few liana, and one year old marrow. They live in a pretty nice, pretty normal looking slot, with a disco ball in the city center. But under this normal veneer, theres a robot lurking amongst them and visit the well, the Energy Center of the house. So to speak, every flat comes with this, i ipad that shows you how much energy to buildings producing from its solar panels. And when it also shows how much energy are using. And how that stacks up against are so called budget. And this were warm water to and there were a bit over budget because the kids say fast, you like a math. With the weirdest thing about this whole thing is, is the ranking. So the whole 74. 00 units of the house are raining concerning their energy and were water using the picture. You can see what are your neighbors. Yeah, i think you cant ha, which is good. I think, you know, i think this whole thing is a bit. It gives this is sort of a competitive fuel while its actually sion down humans, new competition for change to happen. Anyway, the main question is, does the i pad work that we 1st moved into the apartment . I did check it every day or every week or so, and we were like, oh yes, were above the average or something. And now it gives you a kind of motivation to, to change your habit. At the end of the day were soon frankfurt, where the average salaries almost 60000 years a year. Living green is an expensive privilege here. And, and just because the building has green doesnt mean all its residents are normal people in here. I mean, there had been received a g class parking in the parking like downstairs. Most people here with normal frankfurt life. I dont know any fridays from you checked with living here or Something Like that. We had to cut our visit short because guess what . Got to me, the person behind the i pad, frank anchor as the chairman of frankfort city, housing management. And he was in the basement. Just kidding, he showing us how this whole thing works. Just avoidance of the building was designed as a passive house. That means its air tight and the energy it uses is regenerative. But i didnt know was that it also comes from Sewage Division of either stuff. There are massive sewage canals in every city, and that dirty water flows into a treatment plan which has temperatures between 16. 18 degrees celsius. These plates remove energy from the waste water, the other that energy has been sent to a heat pump, which is this massive device here. This generates heat for the whole building. I thought it was using the boys to get there to start. House may be a success story, but its built with all new materials, including lots of concrete, a circular house in berlin. Its a co working and residential space that takes a totally different approach to green architecture. In professional speak called a circular economy comes up. So what does that mean . When we say we the circular, that 2 main aspects. This is simon lee. Hes the head of the circular house project. One is the, from waste, from secondary resources, basically, and boot and way that after the life cycle of bidding, you can actually remove everything and we use it or throw it on the compost. For starters, the structure itself used to be the loading haul of an o brewery. Everything has embedded value with this. This is doctor near market shanee, a professor at the National University center for an expert who said that concrete to build that took a lot of conflict. And so you begin by recognizing the building itself as the kind of as an asset. We got a peak of the Construction Side of the residential for which well have a flat. Sure, large common area and kitchen. So here you see we big 100 percent with what . Nothing is. Nothing is clued. Its all screwed. So you can remove like legal 100 percent organic. So this is just play and behind the clay, its a scroll. You have just put in a lot of lin strong and what invested they also used woodward for installation compress the straw up cycle plywood. Help create a natural alternative to concrete meter, hampshire in line, and recycled plastic bottle doors. Downstairs in the working area, simon, im a colleague, sasha showed me perhaps the worlds most unknowingly famous meeting booth. Rescued actually material from a yoko exhibition and light thick. It was actually assembled of coffins we disassembled them and just like built these meetings out of that are all very cool, but how many of us have access to the people running, you know, show sourcing cycled materials is not only hard. We simply dont have enough people doing it, take it from an architect, you need a whole industry to support that. It has to be done at scale. Its about building an ecosystem around this idea. I dont think its just simple gesture of. Ringback putting a piece of something from the old building into the new building. So is it always better to repurpose mental structure than to build a new one . If you look at it from you to perspective, and why is either more of that happening . Because its just more difficult, you need to put in the extra work to basically analyze the building. What can i do with it . What kind of resources structural system have enabled to repurpose for many they feel if we just knew we have everything under control and we dont have all these unknowns and we dont have any on calculated risk. This is dr. Christine the map. Shes the head of the german Green Building council, and she spent most of her time reminding developers about the Cultural Climate context where buildings are happening and that the building has to react locally to, to the surroundings. But good architecture is also about access. If greener buildings are just there for the one person, then it fails as a social project. 40 percent of the living space and circular house would be devoted to social housing, and most of its residents will be clear women of color. But these are just some of germanys approaches to making architecture. Greener focuses Energy Conservation through technology, which of course, isnt a solution for everyone. Once its all in the building, industry is actually the wrong strategy and the strategy will follow through so many years. And now we have to deal with all the consequences by 2025, 2 thirds of the worlds mega cities will be in asia, where the pace of urban is ation and need for housing is and comparable to that of germany. After 3040 years have been torn down and being replayed, quality was not modern and anymore. But whether its your br, asia building better will be a challenge everywhere because capital will always be impatient. As architect romero, tressa investors want fast returns, but a building has many other stakeholders. We have very different definitions of what a Good Building is. How do you negotiate this mindset . How do you align people to . Its a common goal. I think this is one of the Biggest Challenges that we face it in the street. The real solution might involve a total reconstruction of what we think architecture is to indonesia now. And the community in central philosophy proven that was devastated by a period of natural disaster. In 2018 face to the mammals task of rebuilding, it rediscovered a traditional material which it turns out can withstand, naturally has far better than most conventional building substances. Ah, central civil way c is no stranger to natural disaster. In 2018 the province was his science to nami, lance lines, and a series of hers quakes, including one with a magnitude of 7. 00 bull on pump was one of the many villages affected in chloe district. An area thats popular with tourists from pablo city, together with the Organization Architecture some frontier, indonesia, a group of young men are now rebuilding flattened homes from scratch with bamboo. Its also hope the project will provide economic stimulus thats affiliated with that. The little man at a glance, this looks like a logo, a structure used as a traditional meeting place. Its been it, but the detail Shows Similarities to original cloud houses. Yeah. Called gum period buller noah b. There are slight differences. Most people today are only familiar with lobos and assume these new bamboo houses are like them yet little open house, even in fact, these houses are the same shape as older co valley houses. But them as a kind of my main motivation was the need for shelter. We were informed that besides getting a house, we would also learn skills that, that im glad they were shown the design. And then were taught the whole process to turn the idea into reality. From harvesting the bamboo to finishing the construction long ago, kalauia used to have a tradition of wood and bamboo architecture with modernization. People began to build their homes with brick and concrete. Brick houses were prestigious, but the mass of earthquake caused these houses to crumble, and many people were crushed under the heavy structures. Now residents are looking for safer alternatives. Bamboo is grown widely in indonesia. Its lightweight and flexible and is more earthquake resistant rabbani romeus has worked with marwan and his friends for several months and we see that when that gets you there are also a go logical benefits to using bamboo such as low Carbon Emissions and water conservation. Because bamboo plans can restore groundwater in dry areas, bamboo will also be able to restore damaged ecosystems in the region. Most importantly, bamboo is very interesting to him because it requires skilled manpower out of it. That means in addition to rebuilding homes for disaster survivors, we can also provide economic benefits for those who have joined the Training Program and that the son bamboo houses do still, however, have an image problem. According to rama solid, hes the director of the central solar ways a carson institute, which is implementing the bamboo Housing Project in partnership with architecture, san frontier, indonesia. The alarm system found out on kamisky nandita on poverty conducted by social and statistics agencies, including certain indicators gone into got one of them is the material that people use for their housing. Ah, not the real dental people dont go on the use of anything other than a con, grant, as seen as an indication of poverty, latin buckle, but on as the governor must such categories affect the way we see things done go more. The n mumbo nodded perception, myself. Housing built with concrete, became an aspirational goal for many upwardly mobile families. Even though it was not a Construction Material that was well suited to conditions here in the region. The carsa institute has now developed various Building Designs that use bamboo for private use and for public buildings like local schools and the policy and im health center. My one plans to move into lou bamboo house with his family soon and he is proud of what he has learned along the way. They do the study this chair that im sitting on now as a result of this training process. Before this, i found making your chair like this really difficult. Its a side benefit of the few months of training. Before he built this house, my one earned his living, doing on jobs, but with his new set of skills, he hopes to make a new career for himself. Just like marwan many residents here now have safe homes as well as the means to make a secure living in the future. And i wonder what it would be like to live in a hospital then state you. Because on next report explores the walk of swiss architect me to wish whos organic, what homes are the epitome of Climate Friendly design. Ready at 1st glance, this earth house in switzerland and bennett nature looks more like a hobbit whole than a conventional home. But its esthetic exterior conceals one of the most environmentally and Climate Friendly homes available. There, the brainchild of swiss architect peter fetch who invented these earth houses over 40 years ago is in sound as just a logical solution in terms of environmental protection, integration and ecology hill. There colo normally houses take space away from nature here. Vegetation can grow on the earth, covered roof, and house smelled harmoniously into the landscape. Is too much been so here there is a 50 centimeter layer of earth, but the cover increases in depth. Further up on the top, theres a 120. 00 centimeters of earth. So a lot can grow, there isnt much ceiling, were restoring green space being the, the green. Placing earth houses are low energy, foster biodiversity, and are cheaper to bill