Biodegradable facade component

The major advantages of using biodegradable materials, is that the energy consumption can be decreased by 20 percent, compared to currently used material. For this reason these materials are used in different industries like in the fashion industry, the furniture industry, as packaging industry and in the building industry. The building industry...

Biodegradable materials: A research and design handbook; enhancing the use of biodegradable materials on building's envelopes in the Netherlands.

This master thesis dealt with 12 biodegradable materials that were researched extensively under various parameters, aiming to a better understanding of those materials and their potentials as future building materials in the Netherlands. The main research question of “which products and systems will enhance the use of biodegradable materials on...