Won the ‘Grand Prize’ of PVC Eco Design Award 2017
An idea of using PVC waste blocks… Easily handled by everyone and highly applicable for facility installation
“If any company shows an interest in this idea, patent application is under consideration.”
[2017-11-10]
A joint team composed of YU and Kyugnil University students won the grand prize of PVC Eco Design Award 2017 with a brilliant idea.
The PVC Eco Design Award is a special exhibition to create new value and explore the use of PVC waste by adopting a good-design concept to PVC’s applicability and resource recycling. This exhibition, celebrating its 3rd anniversary this year, was held by the Korea Vinyl Environmental Council and sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and the Korea Environment Corporation.
The year’s subject was “Add new future value to daily living.” A total number of 300 teams participated in the exhibition and about 100 qualified idea works from the preliminary tests were selected for the main contest. The grand prize was awarded to the joint team of Mun Junshik (23, Junior, Dept. of forest resources & landscape architecture, Left) from YU, Gwon Haewon (21, Junior, Dept. of biotechnology, Center) from YU and Hwang Suncheol (23, Junior, Dept. of renewable energy, Right) from Kyungil Univ.
They proposed the idea of ‘PVC DIY Block Garden’, which is a block-shaped small construction material made with PVC waste. Their work got a high score in the evaluation, in view of ‘easily handled by everyone and highly applicable for daily living’.
Mun Junshik mentioned his comment of award, “A variety of shapes can be made with block modules and easily applied for flower garden, vegetable garden, stair and so on.” He added, “Everyone can easily manufacture and install them with favorite colors. They create a pretty look also. Our idea seems to get a higher score in that our idea can be applied also for currently issued villager-oriented concept in urban regeneration project.”
Their conceptual idea and actual size manufacture were invited and displayed in ‘Eco-Expo Korea 2017’ from November 1 to 4 at KOEX in Seoul.
“Our advisor professor recommended us to apply for patent because the idea is excellent. If there is any company showing an interest and circumstances are permitted, we intend to apply for patent after refining our idea,” according to him.
