Have you heard about Cork?!
Cork is a 100% natural, renewable and recyclable material used for various applications from wine bottle caps to insulating flooring panels in homes! In fact, it is so versatile it can be used in almost every element of the build, as seen in Studio Barks ‘Cork Studio’ (insert hyperlink to website). Not only is cork environmentally friendly and extremely versatile, it also has great thermal and acoustic properties making it a wonderful tool to create pleasurable homes.
Cork is a fully sustainable and environmentally friendly resource thanks to its unique nature of its gathering, in which the Bark of the Cork Oak tree is stripped. This can happen multiple times over the trees 200–300-year lifetime, each time absorbing more Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere to aid with the bark regeneration process; in fact, it is estimated that Cork forests absorb and retain 14 million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide each year thanks to Cork harvesting!
To learn more about Cork follow link to article https://spduk.co.uk/pages/what-is-cork or check out our research into natural building materials (insert hyperlink to section of website)
References – SPD UK, nd. What is Cork? [online]. Available at: https://spduk.co.uk/pages/what-is-cork [Accessed 24/10/21].
Crook, 2018. Studio Bark builds "fully biodegradable and recyclable" cork building [online]. Available at: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/12/20/studio-bark-cork-studio-recyclable-building-sustainable-architecture/ [Accessed 24/10/21].
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