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HBBE at Edinburgh Science Festival

Visit our work at Edinburgh Science Festival this year! HBBE is present with several exhibition pieces in the main atrium of the National Museums Scotland on […]

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Built environments which are life-sustaining and sustained by life. Our mission is to develop biotechnologies to create a new generation of Living Buildings which are responsible and responsive to their natural environment; grown using living engineered materials to reduce inefficient industrial construction processes; metabolise their own waste, reducing pollution, generating energy and high-value products; and modulate their microbiome to benefit human and ecological health and wellbeing.