earthbound

We have officially inaugurated our production facilities at Berlin’s Urban Tech Republic. We are now transforming local urban excavation material directly into regenerative earth building materials. The launch event featured insights from industry, policy and research and gave guests a front-row seat to witness our process of transforming raw excavation waste into high-quality earth blocks.

Earthbound has officially reached the final (Top 3) of this year’s DGNB Sustainability Challenge. We are thrilled to be nominated in the “Start-up” category and are also in the race for the cross-competition People’s Choice Award. We will be pitching our vision and products on June 17, 2026, at the DGNB Sustainability Day in Stuttgart. We would be grateful for our support by voting for earthbound:

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In partnership with Bauhaus Earth, we are working on a two-year research project focused on earthen blocks with particularly high compressive strength. Funded by the City of Berlin through the MPI program, the project investigates the optimization of regional earthen building materials through additives, process parameters, and geometric form. The project kick-off took place on January 15, 2026, at the Bauhaus Erde research workshop.

The architecture competition around the design of the landscape park sourrounding the new International Quarter of Esbjerg selectively invited four teams to bring forward a design proposal. Together with the danish landscape office FLÅK, swiss architecture office IN-SITU, and the engineers of ENVIDA and VITA earthbound submitted a proposal. We are now waiting to hear the results from the jury.

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We are excited to join the 8th batch of the start-up accelerator “Founders Bay” and look forward to collaborating with the Founders Bay team as well as the other start up founders.

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On November 28, 2025, the CRCLR HUT was reopened at the test site of the Urban Tech Republic (UTR) in Berlin. The fully demountable wooden pavilion by TRIQBRIQ represents circular construction using renewable resources. As part of the event, our founder Christian Gäth gave a presentation on earthbound’s work in relation to the circular transformation of the construction industry.

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Over the coming months, the development of earthbound will be supported by the City of Berlin through a grant provided by Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB). The funding enables us to establish our site. We are grateful for the trust placed in us and look forward to continuing our collaboration with IBB.

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Earthbound wins the Sustainability Award and the People’s Choice Award in Phase 3 of the Berlin–Brandenburg Business Plan Competition. After already receiving the People’s Choice Award in Phase 1 (January 2025), we are delighted that the further development of our business model has resonated so strongly with both the jury and the audience.

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Earthbound is awarded second prize in the Green Buddy Award in the category Waste Prevention for its innovative use of excavation material as a circular, low-emission building material.

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In its report on sustainable construction, Deutsche Welle portrays our journey from research at Bauhaus Erde to the founding of Earthbound, showing how a scientific vision is translated into market-ready, circular building materials.

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Earthbound wins the People’s Choice Award in Phase 1 of the Berlin–Brandenburg Business Plan Competition. The award shows that our concept has generated strong public interest. We are very pleased to receive this recognition.

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Earthbound founders Micha Kretschmann and Christian Gäth are nominated for the Federal EcoDesign Award for their work on earth blocks made from excavation. The award is Germany’s highest state distinction for sustainable design. The nomination was formally presented in December 2024 at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.

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