BAMBs Materials Passports and tools for Reversible Building Design, enabling a circular economy in the building sector, have the potential in the long run to aid in the elimination of poverty.
Poverty and inequality are multidimensional and complex issues, with big implications for health and wellbeing for all people. The pressures on ecosystems stemming from unsustainable use of raw materials and contamination of environment incl. water contribute to poverty and tend to have greatest consequences for poor people.
Healthy building materials and products, possible to re-use in many cycles have the potential to lessen the strains on ecosystems and aid the development of regenerative management of ecosystems, and materials.
Flexible, transformable buildings and building technics could also aid in the affordability of good housing in the long run.
Materials from regenerative sources, bio based from regenerative production or reusable from the earth’s crust, helps sustain the resources we need to flourish.