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PLASTICS IN CONSTRUCTION

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first UniBrick was made and we took
it from there.
Frans himself is no stranger to recycling plastic as a product designer
he has been running Community
Plastics since 2014. Community Plastics is a workshop where local plastic
is collected, recycled and reused for
new products that can return to the
local community.
We currently are running several
tests on our material and have an operational prototype with a few test/
launching customers in the Netherlands. We are in the design development mode, seeking other applications for the bricks as a commodity
and examining options such as urban
and interior furniture. For our launching customer DUWO, a student housing corporation in Delft, we will be
making 6 interlocking urban furniture
modules, using 144 bricks, recycling
300 kilos of plastic, and saving up to
900 kilos of CO2.
We are now designing a mobile
production facility, in order to be able
to provide the tools and machines
necessary to start producing these
bricks at any location throughout the
world. In another year, we hope to be

As with all start-ups, Conscious Design is on the lookout for more
funding. This year, the company won the Clean Energy Challenge,
organised by the 'What Design Can Do' Foundation. Also, on June
6th, Rushabh Chheda presented his idea on stage at TEDxDelft, a
presentation that won him the Golden Idea Award.
He also presented the idea at this year's Border Sessions, in the
Hague in June.
Border Sessions is a tech culture festival and progressive
platform on the intersection of technology, society, art, and science,
investigating how new technologies can be used for positive
societal and ecological change, with a strong focus on the ideas and
vision of creative pioneers and artists.

ready for mass production.
While there are various other
companies currently working along
similar lines to develop a construction
method using waste plastic, these
projects mainly feature designs that
are strong enough for ground floor

structures only. In urban environments, where land is expensive, it
makes more sense to build up in order to reduce costs and to optimise
space utilisation. For this reason, UniBricks are designed to build structures
that are at least three storeys high.

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