Alternative Building

FALL 2016 - Building Pioneers

 
 

ABOUT THE CLIENT

OUR CONSULTANTS

Building Pioneers is a German social business start-up. It aims to improve housing conditions of underprivileged communities in Bangladesh by promoting an alternative building material: Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (CSEB).

OUR IMPACT

  • Identifying ways through which Building Pioneers will be able to reduce each block’s cost by 2 cents

  • Developing a long-term business model, outlining financial forecasts and incentives for the local workers to switch production from fired bricks to CSEB