The team responsible for the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Cork House has won a RIBA Research Award for its work on dry-jointed bio-renewable construction using expanded cork blocks and engineered timber.

Oliver Wilton, of the Bartlett School of Architecture, and Matthew Barnett Howland, of CSK Architects, were recipients of the 2019 President’s Award – in the design and technical category – for their Cork Construction Kit.

The pair have spent five years looking at the potential for developing a viable construction system with outstanding performance using plant-based materials, as well as creating buildings with “exceptionally low whole-life carbon emissions” in the process.

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