Imagine a tough, fire-resistant building material that could simply grow from a combination of rapidly growing mushrooms and readily available agricultural waste.  A disruptive solution to meet the unprecedented infrastructural demand of the African growing population.

In Kenya construction materials are relatively expensive and often simply not the best quality. The country has an annual housing demand of 250,000 units with an estimated supply of just 50,000, leaving an 80% deficit. The African continent has a cumulative 51,000,000 housing units’ shortage. Brick and Mortar, though tested over the years, will not resolve this demand and this is where innovations, like MycoTile, come in.

With the largely available agriculture waste, sugarcane bagasse, coffee husks, corn cobs, coconut coir, hemp etc, MycoTile uses Oyster mushrooms mycelium to bond the waste into a solid composite. The composite has great potential to be used in manufacturing different building materials with wall and roof insulation as the pilots.