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Ehab Sayed - British, Europe

2018 Winner | | British

The construction industry’s conventional approaches to building are failing to meet the needs of rapidly growing cities with widespread housing crises, unhealthy buildings and a devastating impact on the environment. Biohm is a research and development led company that aims to revolutionise the construction industry by allowing nature to lead innovation. Placing biological systems at the heart of our inspiration, we combine ideologies of the circular economy and human-centred design with future-tech to create a step-change in building technologies, materials and manufacturing methods. Triagomy, our interlocking construction system, can achieve drastic reductions in buildings’ environmental impact (120%), build-times (95%) and costs (70%) when compared to conventional methods. It uses our 100% natural, biodegradable and vegan bio-based materials; including Mycelium (the vegetative part of mushrooms) insulation, Orb (Organic Refuse Biocompound) and a plant-based concrete. We aim to lead the global construction industry towards a healthier and more sustainable biomimetic (nature-inspired) future.

I am the Founder and Director of Innovation at Biohm and a PhD Candidate at Northumbria University. I am a sustainable designer, engineer, circular economy strategist and built environment innovator with a passion for creating a biomimetic (nature-inspired) future that meets our environmental, economic and human needs. Through extensive research on the global construction industry, I developed nature inspired construction systems and materials that champion a transformation towards the integration of biological processes in manufacturing. Leading a solid team of young and talented designers, engineers, architects, biologists and business innovators from around the globe I am working towards revolutionising the construction industry.

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