MycoTile, co-founded by a concerned entrepreneur, transforms agricultural waste like sugar-cane bagasse into sustainable building materials using oyster-mushroom mycelium. Faced with Kenya's severe housing shortage, where only 50,000 housing units are built annually despite a demand for 250,000, MycoTile aims to innovate the construction industry. Their insulation panels provide soundproofing and temperature regulation at two-thirds the cost of traditional options and are compostable. However, the conservative nature of the construction sector and public skepticism toward mushroom-based materials pose significant challenges to widespread adoption.
MycoTile works to produce affordable building materials out of agricultural waste bonded with oyster-mushroom mycelium.
Each year, only around 50,000 housing units are supplied against a demand of about 250,000.
Insulation panels greatly reduced the sound travelling from one room to the next and helped to regulate temperature.
The construction industry is conservative and slow to accept new materials.
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