Building blocks of a better future

Construction materials are of key importance, if we wish to limit global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Today, a half of all raw materials are used for construction, and the amount is expected to rise as the global population grows. We need to build to more with less.

Production of cement, steel, aluminium, and plastics may account close to double the amount of allowable emissions by 2050. In addition to climate harms, extraction of raw materials is a serious threat to biodiversity. Around 90% of global biodiversity loss is connected to extraction of raw materials.

In this exhibition, you can see scale models of different types of wooden buildings and material samples of bio-based and circular materials.

Building blocks of a better future offers solutions for carbon neutral building and living. It identifies connections between bio-based and circular building materials.

If this solution would become “the new normal” we could address three wicked problems at the same time: climate change, resource crises and biodiversity loss.