Bridging the Affordable Housing Gap through Research, Innovation and Technology The Case of Bamboo Based Construction Systems, Luis Felipe Lopez

The chair for sustainable construction (Prof. Guillaume Habert, IBI) would like to invite you to the open lecture:

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Bridging the Affordable Housing Gap through Research, Innovation and Technology

The Case of Bamboo Based Construction Systems

by Luis Felipe Lopez, Head of Technology of the BASE-Bahay Foundation (http://www.base-builds.com/research/)

Event Timing: January 26th, 2023 - 17:00h

Followed by Apéro around 18.30h

ETH Hönggerberg, HIL E 6

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Luis Felipe Lopez: is a Civil engineer from National University of Colombia and MSc in Civil engineering from Los Andes University, Colombia. He Head of Technology at BASE Bahay Foundation inc., a Philippine-based organization supported by the Hilti Foundation. He is the director of the Base Innovation Center, a materials and structures laboratory for the development of sustainable alternatives for social housing. He is one of the authors of the Colombian Bamboo Structural Design Building Code NSR-10 and actively supported the development of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Bamboo Structural Design Building Codes. Currently, He is part of the ISO Committee TC 165 (Timber and bamboo structures) representing Colombia, where he worked keenly in the update of the ISO 22156 “Bamboo structural design” standard, published in June 2021.

BASE Bahay is an initiative of the HILTI foundation that provides alternative building technologies to enable a network of partners to build quality socialized homes.  Homes that are Comfortable, Affordable, Disaster Resilient, Ecologically Friendly, and with Social Impact. BASE develops technologies using locally grown and renewable materials to create housing envelops and designs suited to the needs of local communities. To date, Base Bahay has built more than 1,200 Cement-Bamboo frame houses across the Philippines sheltering about 5,000 individuals in 12 communities and around 200 houses in Nepal.