{"id":186903,"date":"2024-04-06T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T19:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/grimshaw-and-uel-develop-sugarcane-waste-construction-blocks"},"modified":"2024-04-06T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T19:52:29","slug":"grimshaw-and-uel-develop-sugarcane-waste-construction-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/grimshaw-and-uel-develop-sugarcane-waste-construction-blocks","title":{"rendered":"Grimshaw and UEL develop sugarcane-waste construction blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/grimshaw-and-uel-develop-sugarcane-waste-construction-blocks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using sugarcane waste as bricks for construction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Architecture studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/grimshaw\/\">Grimshaw<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/university-of-east-london\/\">University of East London<\/a> have collaborated to create Sugarcrete, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/biomaterials\/\">biomaterial<\/a> construction block with an interlocking shape made from the sugarcane by-product bagasse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uel.ac.uk\/sugarcrete-slab\">Sugarcrete<\/a> was developed to be a low-cost and low-carbon reusable construction-material alternative to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/bricks\/\">brick<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/concrete\/\">concrete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The concept, design and fabrication of the material were led by staff and fellows of the <a href=\"https:\/\/uel.ac.uk\/\">University of East London<\/a> (UEL), including senior architecture lecturer Armor Gutierrez Rivas, Sustainability Research Institute co-director Alan Chandler and research fellow Bamdad Ayati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using sugarcane waste as bricks for construction. Architecture studio Grimshaw and the University of East London have collaborated to create Sugarcrete, a biomaterial construction block with an interlocking shape made from the sugarcane by-product bagasse. Sugarcrete was developed to be a low-cost and low-carbon reusable construction-material alternative to brick and concrete. The concept, design and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}