September 2023 we went to Ghana for the third time, yet this time with a concrete project to work on and therefor a good reason to meet our contacts again.

With the production of the mould a set of test/sample unibricks were delivered as well….and they looked good!

It was time to order a mould that can do serial production of the Unibricks and fit the machine line provided by our partner the Great Plastic Bake Off.

On the last day we visited a construction site and dived into the comparison of unibrick with conventional materials.

We visited Washking, an innovative company building sanitary solutions for the poor.

YES!!!! We won the NENnovation award 2021 for Start-ups and Scale-ups.

Read our interview with World Startup

We got in contact with a Rotterdam (NL) based plastic expert that had developed a process to mix plastic waste with sand…

Plastic is an artificial material and, in the way we use it, containing unknown additives. We needed to get a grip on the possible health risks for people living in a space made with unibricks.

People imagined plastic being a material which relatively easy catches fire. This doesn’t mix well with the goal to use it as construction material for affordable housing. So we needed to get a grip on this topic….

Informal waste pickers can provide the plastic we need….and that would be socially sustainable as well!

In the suburbs of Accra we found a very good example of social housing.

We are selected for the SBIR ‘20 Feasibility study!

In the summer of 2019 we were invited to present at TEDxDelft, hosted in the auditorium of the TUDelft.

As one of our first steps to get some funding we submitted for the competition of the Clean Energy Challenge of What Design Can Do.

In the winter of 2018 we had our first attempt to make a unibrick.