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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #76 Building with Biomaterials
Description: In this episode we have partnered with Autodesk Construction Solutions to look at a new approach to housing construction in Kenya.Â
We take a look at how a local architecture, engineering and construction firm, BuildX, is working with modern methods of construction – manufacturing modular units offsite – to produce housing on a scale, and at a price, that will help ease the deficit and hopefully provide homes for tens of thousands of Kenyans.Â
And we learn how a return to more traditional materials – especially timber, coupled with modern engineering – will help make the housing sector more sustainabl...