Bamboo in Uganda

A training hall under construction- designed and built by INBAR‘s Nepali-Colombian architect duo Nripal Adhikary and Juan Carlos Jaramillo. This 2200 sq. meter building is the largest bamboo structure in East Africa. It is part of an initiative of INBAR to introduce bamboo- ubiquitous but under utilized material- in East Africa. This is built in [...]

Testing boron concentration

One of the major challenges we had treating bamboo with sap-displacement method was our difficulty in knowing if the bamboo was totally treated or not. Thanks to help from Prof. Walter Liese and our in-house team we have successful done our first test. The red ones are treated while the yellows are not.

Two story rammed earth

This is our first two story bamboo and earth house. The first floor is 45 cm rammed earth reinforced with bamboo. The second floor is completely made of bamboo (bambusa balcooa). It is spacious, low maintenance,thermally very pleasant and has a very modern feel to it. Its a perfect house for a middle class family [...]

Village Of the Future

We are working with a community in Chitwan where we are planting hundreds of bamboo along a river bed. In order to avoid monoculture, we are also planting high value crops like lemongrass, ginger, lentil, chamomile etc. Our plan is to add value to these plants, for example by building schools with local resources, or extracting lemongrass oil so that we can create a unique village that demonstrates the world the best local use of natural resources. For more info http://www.abari.org/votf

Treatment

Treatment is the most fundamental part of bamboo construction. We spent first two years of Abari just developing pressure treatment system that is effective, portable and economical- in other words that is suitable in a developing country like ours. It is not fully perfected, but it is good enough to treat 100 bamboo a day. We have even exported our technology to India, Fiji and USA! If you are looking to buy our machine or treatment service do let us know. If you want to collaborate with us to make our treatment plant better we'd be more than happy to share.

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