News from our partners - Learning by building in West-Africa
Our Italian partner AK0 - architettura a kilometro zero is running a training program for sustainable architecture in Côte d'Ivoire. Practical workshops are at the base of a series of activities that aim at promoting the use of renewable building techniques in the rural areas of the West-African country.
Discussing sustainable building and housing in Grenoble
Two days of seminar on sustainable building and housing held at the University Grenoble-Alpes. LearnBIØN has been discussed as strategic tool to bring sustainable building choices into active communities in Europe.
Poured earth: an alternative to cement concrete ?
There is an emergency in finding an alternative to cement concrete and one of the solutions may be just under our feet: earth material! Even if it's compressive strength isn't equivalent to concrete's, in a lot of cases it can be enough and thus represent a real alternative.