Take Part - The Mobile Factory, founded by 73-year-old Dutch business consultant and sustainability specialist Gerard Steijn, is what the organization describes as a “transforming technology” housed inside two shipping containers. It crushes construction debris within its walls, churning out Lego-shaped building blocks that can be easily stacked and snapped into place to build temporary housing in less than a day. Steijn’s goal: to dispatch these small factories around the world so locals can rebuild their communities using debris and waste that’s been left behind in the wake of man-made or natural disasters. Advertisement
Steijn created the Mobile Factory in 2007 after researching waste production in the construction industry for a major Dutch engineering firm. His work brought him to sites around the world, where he witnessed neighborhoods and communities destroyed by earthquakes, war, development, and urban growth.
“My research taught me that 85 percent of the victims of disasters live under the poverty line,” says Steijn. “And I felt that the responsibility for that rested on the construction industry.”
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