Comments on: Industrial strength fungus: mycelium as building material

By: joe l

joe l — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:16:14 +0000

I read about this great product, but except for the insulation qualities, I doubt the construction industry will welcome such a strong, indestructable material.
As a packing material it can eliminate much of the styrafoam being used. I think it would be a great addition to home foundations if not the entire structure.

By: uncle Roy T.

uncle Roy T. — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:42:08 +0000

I believe two frequency geodomes would be a good canidate for such a remarkable building material. Truly grow homes, possibly at such a low cost that young people can truly invision living in a 3000+ sqaure ft home for exceptionaly low cost. More money for education.

By: David Edwin Pennington

David Edwin Pennington — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:27:14 +0000

This fits so well… while conventional wood construction is bedeviled by mold and fungus problems, here we let the fungus take us by the mycelium and we get strong, safe structures from trash! I have a growing barn where I would like to produce this synergistic stuff.

By: Rowan Watson

Rowan Watson — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:20:55 +0000

this is awesome! you could just grow it to shape, whatever you needed. i’d love to grow a house.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:28:02 +0000

Smaller, more compact, solar oriented, well insulated dwellings will cut capital and running costs for the smaller bodied of the Great Hulking American Neanderthals; spawn of two hundred years of corporate force feeding and breeding for exploitation of Americas resources, now gone! Mushrooms as building material make as much sense as Hemp, another fast to grow, easy to replace material! The huge supply of wood being burned in Detroit Cities ruination has yet to re-grow and the Great hulking American Neanderthal must turn to other building materials – the fine West Coast firs are all gone! Redwoods? same story! The Asian, remaining small in stature and modest in diet of veggies and rice, smaller dwelling spaces, compact economical cars, electric bullet train networks, has a lower operating cost and will surpass the Great Hulking American Neanderthals this way, even with mushroom and hep houses, complete with bamboo and solar heat, with even super insulation, but this is one way to cut costs and keep our heads up for a short while.