Advancing Low-Carbon Building Materials for Construction

“Everything old is new again and that is precisely why we’ve been investigating rammed earth construction,” said Sumi Siddiqua, Civil Engineering Professor and Lead Researcher with The University of British Columbia’s Advanced Geomaterials Testing Lab. Siddiqua is part of a research group at UBC Okanagan that’s revisiting old building practices — the use of byproducts and cast-offs — as a way to improve building materials and sustainability of the trade.