2G, an emirates company, takes waste palm tree fronds and leaves, mixes in plastics and produces immensely strong floorboards, gates, walls, cladding, roof tiles, decking and other building materials.
Consider, for example, the tricky art of mixing mortar and laying brick, lining an oven with authentic Italian refractory tile, cladding it with attractive cut stone and perhaps landscaping it in the Tuscan fashion.
Students can see the university's sustainable practices in action: the new facility has exposed areas showcasing its straw bale cladding panels, while its tiles are made up of 93% recycled content.
"Often, the exterior of these hot tubs is quite ugly, so we like to hide it all in a deck area," he said, or by cladding the tub with ceramic tile.
The improvements ranged from the basic – putting in floors, flues and walls; glazing windows; replacing wattle and daub with brick, and thatch with tile; to the ostentatious – cladding brick walls with marble and surrounding pitched roofs with parapets.
From yet another angle, the building looks like a huge bird that has landed on the park - and Nouvel continues the avian theme by cladding many of the outside surfaces, underfoot and on walls, with 200,000 tiles in the shape of flying birds in what must be 50 shades of grey aluminium.
There is an abundance of zinc cladding.
Where have cladding tests failed?
*Fiber code name, core Zeonor, cladding THV.
At Pocelanosa, Dennis Kobza & Associates took a traditional warehouse and added glass lines, cladded the building with tile and added energy conservation systems.
