Researchers study bamboo for engineered building material, similar to plywood.

Architects and construction experts released the “Pittsburgh Declaration,” calling for bamboo to become a widely used building material for the 21st Century at a recent University of Pittsburgh ...

Bamboo has emerged as a promising sustainable resource in the field of construction and materials science owing to its exceptional mechanical properties and rapid renewability. Its intrinsic ...

Bamboo is a proven earthquake-resistant building material and, given its staggering growth rate, an ideal plant for sustainably rebuilding in areas devastated by earthquakes.

Mainstreaming Bamboo as a Building Material in the Construction Sector CGBMT - Center for Green Building Materials & Technology, India ...

The concept behind the research is to slice the stalk of bamboo grass into smaller pieces to bond together and form sturdy blocks, much like conventional wood composites. “Bamboo grows extensively in ...

Their work resulted in the “Pittsburgh Declaration,” which seeks to tout the benefits of bamboo and better use it as a building material.

The bamboo family is amazing with more than 1,200 species mostly from Asia. The first plant to appear after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan was bamboo. After spraying the forests of ...

Bamboo has one other major advantage over traditional building materials–it grows three and a half times faster than the fastest growing trees, so it is ready to be harvested in only three years.

In Vietnam, architects are turning to local materials and time-honored building techniques as enduring tools of climate resilience.