Bamboo has been used in construction for many years. Given its outstanding tensile properties, replacing steel reinforcement in reinforced structural concrete with bamboo is of high interest to ...

While concrete is without a doubt the world's go ... traditional frameworks with more sustainable materials like bamboo, a resource that grows in abundance throughout many regions of the world ...

The global construction industry is dominated by steel and concrete, writes Dirk Hebel - but it doesn't have to be that way. There's a strong, fast-growing, climate-friendly, sustainable material ...

Four civil engineering students won the Best Innovator Award for their bamboo reinforced mud concrete housing model. Looking at how the underprivileged go through a lot of trouble to find a place ...

bamboo may be the strongest stuff on the planet. It has greater tensile strength (or resistance to being pulled apart) than steel, and it withstands compression better than concrete. Both ...

It is no marvel of modern engineering: Built entirely of bamboo and earth ... earthquake regulations require people to pour tons of cement to make buildings strong and people don’t have the ...

An oversized, bamboo-clad roof connects the spaces at the Bamboo Gate community centre in the Mabi Reconstruction Disaster Prevention Park, Japan, designed by architecture studio Kengo Kuma and ...