The Constructor

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Bamboo has been used as a construction material in certain areas for centuries, but its application as reinforcement in concrete had received little.

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Work Gearz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

There are various fabrics you can choose from, but there is a serious competition between cotton and bamboo socks. . Bamboo socks are extremely soft and pleasant to your feet thanks to the high porosity of the fibres, which also makes them super-absorbent and keeps your feet dry. So what makes bamboo socks so soft and breathable?

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Natural Building

JUNE 14, 2021

Bamboo is being used to create beautiful and majestic forms that are green and respect their surrounding environment. Here is a collection of structures built from bamboo that prove sustainability, comfort, and luxury can be combined. Her design features shellac-coated bamboo to emphasize the use of biomimicry.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Filipinos believe that man and woman first emerged from the nodes of a bamboo stalk. The Chinese view bamboo as a symbol of their culture and values; it is a symbol of prosperity in Japan and friendship in India. Restrictive building codes and an inability to grade the material also hinder the adoption of bamboo.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Bamboo Living co-founder and chief architect David Sands is at the forefront of modern sustainable bamboo construction. His Hawaiian-based company specializes in creating bamboo homes. The giant bamboos are the fastest-growing woody plant on the planet. The plants can live up to 120 years.

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Natural Building

JUNE 2, 2021

Parameswaran Krishna searched online for bamboo products and realized that there was a lot of demand, but not much supply for bamboo products where he lived in India. So he decided to explore the business possibilities of bamboo. The tensile strength of bamboo is the same as that of mild steel owing to its fibrous nature.

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Natural Building

JUNE 6, 2021

Well-designed and built roofs play a key role in protecting bamboo structures while adding to the beauty and experience of the space. What qualifies as a well-designed bamboo roof? In this article 5 of the most commonly used roofing systems for Balinese bamboo buildings are featured: Thatch . Halved bamboo .

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Natural Building

APRIL 28, 2020

Under the guidance of the German master-builder Jörg Stamm, folks at Bamboo U, a build and design course in Bali, have created a bamboo yurt which can fold like an umbrella and be deployed in an instant. The yurt’s frame is made from bamboo of the Phyllostachys species, referred to in Bali as Bambu Jajang.

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The Constructor

DECEMBER 27, 2018

How many floors can be built by taking bamboo as reinforcement? The post How many floors can be built by taking bamboo as reinforcement? appeared.

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The Constructor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

we are designing a toilet with a steel and bamboo main structure, covering it with bamboo. we need to make a ready to install module.

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The Constructor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Bamboo reinforced concrete mix proportion, design principles and construction technique with properties of bamboo as reinforcement in concrete is.

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Natural Building

JULY 30, 2021

Ibuku, an architecture studio, has completed The Arc gymnasium for a private school in Bali featuring a complex double-curved roof made entirely from bamboo. The Green School has been constructing bamboo buildings at its campus in Bali, Indonesia, since it was founded in 2008. Photography is by Tommaso Riva.

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BD+C

JANUARY 7, 2020

Located in China’s Jiangsu Province, the recently opened Wuxi Show Theater takes its design inspiration from the Sea of Bamboo Park in Yixing, China’s largest bamboo forest.

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The Constructor

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Bamboo as a building material has high compressive strength and low weight. Bamboo as a building material has various uses and advantages in.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

A pavilion of woven bamboo and steel by Zuo Studio arches over a body of water to create a shady place to sit in Huludun Park in Taiwan. Stout bamboo supports at the base give views of the water through the gaps, with patterns of shade created by the woven elements. Photography is by Shih-hong Yang.

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Natural Building

JULY 18, 2020

Besides its materials (mostly earth and bamboo) and the building process (managed by a local enterprise, employing local craftsmen), the issue of functions is crucial here. The post Bamboo and Rammed Earth Help Build Integrated Society appeared first on Natural Building Blog. You can read the original article at www.domusweb.it.

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The Constructor

MAY 1, 2020

INTRODUCTION The north eastern region, a landmass of eight states, spread over an area of 262179 Km2 representing around 8% of the total geographical.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Architects in southeastern Brazil features locally sourced bamboo and rammed earth to create a simple one bedroom and bath layout. The post Guesthouse in Brazil of Rammed Earth and Bamboo appeared first on Natural Building Blog. A guesthouse designed by CRU! This design also has a green roof that helps it fit into the landscape.

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BD+C

MARCH 21, 2014

Organized by the UK-based design competition site SuperSkyScrapers, the Singapore Bamboo Skyscraper competition invited design teams to explore the possibilities of using bamboo as the dominant material—structural or cladding—in a high-rise project for the Singapore skyline. Body Image: read more.

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BD+C

JULY 24, 2014

It’s called bamboo. MIT news reports that several of the institution’s students and faculty are pairing up with architects from the United Kingdom and Canada to explore ways bamboo can be a construction material more akin to wood composites, like plywood. Yes – grass, but not the short green kind, the 6-story building tall kind.

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BD+C

MAY 20, 2016

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 symposium.

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BD+C

JULY 14, 2014

Flexible, versatile and sustainable–these words best describe the bamboo structure design by Beijing-based design cooperative Penda. Dezeen reports that the design was made for the AIM Legend of the Tent competition in China, with the prompt to develop low-impact tent themed-hotels with a closer connection to the outdoors.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Various forms of bamboo architecture were implemented in the construction, including space trusses using round bamboo and laminated bamboo beams. Some of the joints require masterly skill made possible by using a Balinese bamboo knife. Mama Linda Ecolodge was built by the Indonesian company bambuso.id

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BD+C

JULY 14, 2014

Flexible, versatile and sustainable – these words best describe the bamboo structure design by Beijing-based design cooperative Penda. Dezeen reports that the design was made for the AIM Legend of the Tent competition in China, with the prompt to develop low-impact tent themed-hotels with a closer connection to the outdoors.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Atelier Daniel Florez was invited to complete a new beach pavilion as a cluster of three, giant pergolas made of laminated wood and bamboo at Hotel Kilombo Villas in Tibau do Sul, Brazil. The wooden columns, each carved in an anthropomorphic shape standing 2.3 meters high at the perimeter, build a classic entrance facing the sea.

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CivilJungle

MAY 3, 2022

What Is Bamboo Flooring? Bamboo flooring is evolving as a popular choice to standard hardwood flooring as it has material resemblances to hardwood but is more long-lasting, eco-friendly, and endurable. More homeowners search for greener options than standard hardwood floors, so the favor for bamboo floors increases.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Orin Hardy, founder of bamboo training course Bamboo U, “There was a time when nobody would want to be seen to live in a bamboo house.” IBUKU has teamed up with Bamboo U, to provide courses in bamboo construction. Balinese bamboo carpenters know which poles to pick and how to use them.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 10, 2022

The restaurant owner wished to extend his existing restaurant space, away from the metropolitan, wanting patrons to “breathe and isolate” The site fits that description, and the structure was realized as a stilted bamboo pavilion bordering expansive paddy fields, as far as the eyes could see.

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ENR Construction

JANUARY 5, 2022

To meet climate goals in construction, we need a plan for fiber optimization.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 16, 2022

Not only are green flooring products made from recycled or renewable materials, but their long term impact on the environment also determines just how sustainable options like bamboo or cork hardwoods actually are.

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Natural Building

MARCH 12, 2021

Bamboo, rammed earth, and adobe bricks were used by Chiangmai Life Architects to form a new Science and Music Center in Thailand. The Science Lab is L-shaped and the bamboo roof looks like a heart from above. And because of the roof’s non-reflective bamboo surfaces, the sound experience is very clear without an echo.

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Natural Building

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is still widely used for scaffolding in construction. In Hong Kong, skilled armies of scaffolders can erect enough bamboo to engulf a building in a day – even hours – using techniques that are thousands of years old, and have been passed down through generations.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 4, 2020

This article shows how traditional materials, such as tiles, rocks, bamboo, wooden sticks, timber, rammed earth and bricks are being used in current architecture in China. The Qingxiao Residence uses green tiles, rammed earth, masonry blocks, bamboo, old stone slabs, old rubble, and terrazzo recycled from demolished villages.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The rest of the structure is built with bamboo, much of which was harvested from the site. The yoga studio literally floats from the cliff’s edge with a cantilevered structure supporting a parabolic bamboo pavilion.

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Learn Civil Engineering

JUNE 27, 2020

m a temporary structure, usually of timber planks and bamboos, is erected close to the work to provide a safe working platform for the workers, which is known as scaffolding. What is Scaffolding? When the height of the wall or other structural member of the building exceeds about 1.50 It is very useful in construction, […].

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 28, 2019

M aterials like bamboo, renewable fibers, linoleum and others may be sustainably sourced, recyclable, or renewable. Bamboo flooring is perfect for hardwood floor lovers as i t resembles traditional plank wood flooring but has some added advantages. Antimicrobial properties can be found naturally in materials like linoleum and bamboo.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To achieve the cathedral feeling they used bundled bamboo to form arches that are at the same time the structural support of the whole building like in Roman or Gothic cathedrals. It has a striking bamboo roof on top an adobe building with decorative bottles in the wall.

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