
Learn about an innovative building technology utilizing fiber-reinforced composites. As the world population grows, global society faces the prospect of a doubling of building and infrastructure in the next 25-30 years – a staggering challenge that represents the largest manufacturing drive in human history! The global building industry is currently faced with the twin crises of affordability and sustainability. At MIT and DECOi (a housing startup venture), it has been determined that thin skin all-composite buildings are energy efficient and cost-effective. In this webinar, the speaker will explain the benefits and challenges when using composite materials for meeting building technical performance including fire retardancy for a sustainable future.
Who Should Attend
Research & Development, technical marketing & sales, management from companies representing the supply chain, material scientists, fire safety educators, academia, government authorities and other interested stakeholders.
About the Speaker
Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor at MIT Dept Architecture, researches digital design>fabrication. Current research centers on automated composite housing production, addressing the global challenges of affordability and sustainability of buildings. CarbonHouse deploys new forms of carbon such as carbon nanotubes and carbon foams, focusing on supplementing the cost of hydrogen by gas pyrolysis of methane.
Goulthorpe organized MakeBuildings as part of the MIT SOLVE initiative, looking to find ways to decisively address macro global issues – the challenge of doubling the number of buildings on the planet by 2050. He organized the Carbon>Building 2018 conference at MIT to gather upstream and downstream groups interested in using hydrocarbons for building; a second C>B will take place at MIT spring 2023. This has resulted in funding from Shell and ExxonMobil, and his being asked to lead JEC in its recent Composite Buildings initiative. Most recently he was awarded ARPA-e funding for development of CarbonHouse, looking to support a hydrogen economy by demonstrating viable use of carbon nanotube and carbon foam materials.
Most recently he has received start-up funding from Khosla Ventures and The Grantham Foundation to bring automated all-composite housing into mainstream markets.
There will be a Q&A session during the webinar session.
