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CibbuanoBamboo Love Shack
May 12th 2006 02:10
Clever, innovative kids at the Faculty of Built Environment UNSW can undertake a three week intensive winter elective class focusing on construction with bamboo. The combined efforts of 30 students, a lecturer and two bamboo experts, yielded The Love Shack. According to the FBE website,
“The Love Shack highlights bamboo as a building material that could potentially be used for building sheds, gazebos and even houses. “Bamboo has a lower environmental impact than steel, is cheaper to buy, strong and lightweight and when it comes to aesthetics, bamboo wins hands down. With some varieties of bamboo taking only five months to grow to full size, bamboo is a readily available, environmentally friendly alternative to steel.”
It would appear bamboo is a viable and sustainable solution to housing problems around the world. Bamboo houses are low cost, environmental friendly, easy to construct, durable, flexible, socially adaptable and resistance to earthquakes. Bamboo Technologies of Maui, Hawaii has this year launched the first International Design Competition for Structural Bamboo Buildings. A selection of the winning entries will be chosen for manufacture by
Bamboo Technologies which is a company at the forefront of international building code approved bamboo home construction. Structural bamboo has been certified for international building codes - the first time bamboo has ever been code certified. Certified structural bamboo material is available for use by architects and engineers throughout the world.
In Borneo and in the Naga Hills of India, large communal houses of 100 feet in length have been built of bamboo. Throughout rural Asia it is used for building bridges, from the sophisticated technology of suspension bridges to the simpler pontoon bridges. Bamboo scaffoldings are found throughout Asia, and they are employed on the high rise structures of Tokyo and Hong Kong. Bamboo furniture is another expanding bamboo business. In the Philippines, between 1985-1994, exports rose from $625,000 to $1.2 million.
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