Cheer up a school

We are running a campaign in Nepal to refurbish old government schools built with large grey concrete blocks with beautiful rendering, nice bamboo furniture, warm lighting so that the place becomes very playful and child friendly. We are currently prototyping some furnitures for the classroom. It is an interdisciplinary effort as cheering up a school [...]

Prefabricated Bamboo

For the last few years we have been trying to start a pre-fabrication center to make bamboo structures. This is our first attempt! We have been continuously refining our technology so that bamboo construction does not become very labor intensive. Moreover, due to labor shortage in Nepal we have been empowering women to do our work. [...]

Mud plaster over concrete wall

Here is our finished earthen plaster over a concrete wall. It has three layers of mix which include husk, sand, clay and starch paste. Traditionally in Nepal, people do mud wash which only includes clay, dung and sometimes husk, although this method produces beautiful textures it requires constant maintenance. It was hard to convince our [...]

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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