Use of Bamboo in Building Construction and its advantages
Use of Bamboo in Building Construction
Bamboo is a building materials which has high compressive strength , and it has low weight therefore bamboo is a good building materials which used as a support for concrete. Mostly bamboo is used for the construction of scaffolding , bridge and also its used in houses construction.
Bamboo has a long and well-established tradition as a building material throughout the world’s tropical and sub-tropical regions. It is widely used for many forms of construction, in particular for housing in rural areas.
Composite bamboo/concrete columns: a concrete extension is given to bamboo post using a plastic tube of the same diameter. The result is a bamboo post with an integral durable foundation
Advantages of Bamboo
1: Bamboo is a good building materials which easily to cut.2: Bamboo is suitable building materials for all structure in construction works.
3: the surface of bamboo is natural is smooth and clean and no need to painting or polishing.
4: Bamboo can also used the place of steel because its tensile stress is more than 6 time of Steel reinforcement.
