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Pablo van der Lugt

The future is biobased –
towards the next building revolution

Keynote speaker
TED speaker Pablo van der Lugt (PhD,
MSc Eng) is a passionate advocate of high
performance bio-based materials. In the
vision of van der Lugt in the essential
transition towards a more circular economy
there are tremendous opportunities for
smart biobased materials, made from
renewable resources such as mass timber

(CLT, Glulam, LVL, etc), modified wood and
engineered bamboo, to substitute carbon
intensive, high performance materials from
the techno-cycle such as metals, minerals
and plastics (PVC).

Van der Lugt is the author of several
books on sustainable building,
including the international acclaimed
Tomorrow’s Timber (2020) and Booming
Bamboo (2017), which details the latest
developments in design and architecture
using bamboo and (mass) timber. Van
der Lugt has published extensively in
both popular magazines as scientifi c
journals and regularly provides
(keynote) presentations on this topic
to stakeholders and policy makers in
the building industry, including the
International Climate Conference in
Paris, COP 21, COP 24 and COP 26.