Structural engineer Ahmad Mazlan Othman’s love affair with bamboo started in 2013 when he was visiting Vietnam. The former president of the Malaysian Bamboo Society was exploring Ho Chi Minh City when ...

Base Bahay Foundation, Inc. (BASE), a pioneer in sustainable building technologies, successfully showcased bamboo’s ...

Bamboo, the perennial and plentiful plant, is the next big thing in sustainable construction. For centuries, bamboo had been used for traditional ceremonies and as the primary material for building ...

Cities around the world are searching for ways to decarbonize infrastructure without sacrificing safety or durability.

Comprehensive guidance about the design of permanent bamboo structures has been published by the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE). The detailed design manual draws on the expertise of ...

This is a symposium to discuss the future of bamboo in the Haitian built environment and is organised as a joint event by Newcastle University in the UK, the University of Pittsburgh, USA and the ...

Once seen as traditional, the plant is gaining attention as a modern building material with strong environmental and structural potential.

BAMBOO is no longer the poor man's timber and instead can become the single most important material in sustainable construction. Though perceived as cheap lumber, it can replace concrete and steel as ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is seeking to secure up to a $500-million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ...

In architecture we are so caught up in creating something new, we often forget about what happens at the end of a building’s life cycle—the unfortunate, inevitable demolition. We may want our ...