Affordable buildings from local plastic

A home for everyone

Unibrick builds resilient communities by developing a local value chain from forgotten and marginalised resources, designing affordable and high-quality buildings with a significantly reduced footprint.

We deliberately co-create with the local community and parties to deliver jobs, smoothen logistics and directly connect to local needs and build the needed support for a healthy local value chain, in other words when our communities grow, we grow

Constructing

  • due to the specific shape the brick just can’t be placed wrong

  • There’s no mortar, glue or other bounding agents needed, which increases the speed of construction by at least 5 times

  • a constructions in Unibrick are at 10-40% cheaper than alternative affordable materials.

Local Strength

  • local entrepreneurs will manage the production (and earn the profit from it). They know the local habits, needs, regulations and market.

  • By using the local plastic waste, through networks of informal waste pickers, we can be sure of enough plastic and supporting the local economy.

  • What communities want and need differs per region and even parts of a city. Understand the local ways to operate and addressing these local needs increases the success

Building Communities

  • the way of constructing is that simple that everybody can safely make their own house; it’s as simple as building with Lego

  • Due to the way of constructing a house (or other building) can grow along with the needs of its users: you get kids, just add another floor. Your company flourishes; add a shop. Your kids move out; give them their room as a start.

  • Introducing an affordable, flexible and self-organising constructing system gives back control to a marginalised yet large part of society. People can start building their lives and building the community they which.

“The world needs to build 96,000 new affordable homes every day to house the estimated 3 billion people who will need access to adequate housing by 2030”

— UN Habitat

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