Seminar
Bamboo for a Radically Regenerative Built Environment by SEAD
About This Session
Discover the potential and benefits of bamboo as a sustainable material for construction and design, as SEAD showcases bamboo structures that has been designed and built in various contexts.
The built environment has a predominantly extractive narrative - the more we build, the more we need to extract and diminish. Today, a paradigm shift is available at our doorsteps: a giant weed that grows even more tenacious when harvested the right way, can be turned into a hyper-carbon accumulator. And what if the more we build, the more degraded ecosystems stand a chance at being regenerated through community-based agroforestry?
Find out how bamboo can be the answer - join Lucas in his vision of creating a bamboo revolution that can transform the world.
The seminar is part of the Yellow House Rejuvenation Project, a fundraising CSR initiative by YTL Foundation and Yellow House - a social enterprise that empowers marginalised communities through tourism education. The project aims to transform an old building in Kuala Lumpur into a vibrant community hub that will host various programmes and activities for the urban poor. SEAD is collaborating with YTL Construction, the Design & Construction Partner on the project, to lend their expertise in the use of bamboo.
About The Speaker
Lucas Loo Ze Xian
Executive Director & Founder,
SEAD Industries Sdn Bhd
About The Speaker
Lucas Loo’s journey with bamboo started in the year 2014 where he co-developed a resort in Malaysia built almost entirely out of bamboo. As he built a deeper understanding of the environmental, social and mechanical properties of bamboo, it compelled him to commit to activating bamboo for a regenerative economy, where industrial growth results in environmental and social benefits, rather than exploitation.
He started SEAD - Stewards of Environmentally-Aware Development, with three arms:
1. SEAD Build – to accelerate the built environment towards a sustainable future by offering durable and efficient bamboo construction materials and systems.
2. SEAD Plant – to facilitate a bamboo supply chain that draws down carbon dioxide, restores degraded lands and empowers rural communities.
3. SEAD Carbon – to carbonize bamboo for permanent carbon sink and utilization in various industries ranging agriculture to engineering.