People are also much more concerned about environmental
issues and demand sustainable solutions for all aspects of
their daily life.
Reusing, recycling and saving are terms learnt by
children at an early age.
The present world economic crisis also
requires contention, and new affordable and sustainable products
are desirable.
On the other hand, the quality of these products also
has to be guaranteed.
Affordability, sustainability and quality are
therefore the three main vectors which should dictate the design
of such product.
To fulfill these three requirements is the big challenge.
Using organic materials and low technological processes is a
good option to achieve the above requirements [1–3].
These organic
materials have to be preferentially abundant and local.
In the building industry, a big range of products and building
solutions based on raw organic materials have been applied.
Perhaps wood, wood engineered products, cork and cork engineered
products are the most traditional ones.
However, different agricultural
products have also been reported as possible raw organic
building materials [4–9].
Some examples of these agricultural
products are bagasse, cereal, straw, corn stalk, corn cob, cotton
People are also much more concerned about environmentalissues and demand sustainable solutions for all aspects oftheir daily life. Reusing, recycling and saving are terms learnt bychildren at an early age. The present world economic crisis alsorequires contention, and new affordable and sustainable productsare desirable. On the other hand, the quality of these products alsohas to be guaranteed. Affordability, sustainability and quality aretherefore the three main vectors which should dictate the designof such product. To fulfill these three requirements is the big challenge.Using organic materials and low technological processes is agood option to achieve the above requirements [1–3].These organicmaterials have to be preferentially abundant and local.In the building industry, a big range of products and buildingsolutions based on raw organic materials have been applied. Perhaps wood, wood engineered products, cork and cork engineeredproducts are the most traditional ones. However, different agriculturalproducts have also been reported as possible raw organicbuilding materials [4–9]. Some examples of these agriculturalproducts are bagasse, cereal, straw, corn stalk, corn cob, cotton
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