From Forest Menace to Urban Shelter - Technology Tames the Albizia
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2016-10-15

Can good design save Hawai'i? Joseph Valenti won the inaugural 2016 UH President's Green Project Implementation Award. The $10,000 award is being used to fabricate a full-scale prototype of a transient housing unit utilizing wood from the invasive Albizia tree. Could this be the solution to Hawai'i's shelter crisis? 

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