Prefabricated Bamboo

Posted on | January 3, 2012 | Comments Off

Credit: Lobsang Sangbo

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. We are proud of this project because it was initated by our female dominated team headed by Sulava. Our vision is to provide enough skills and technology so that bamboo and earth becom widely accessible as modern construction materials. Our main challenges are grading of the material according to size and strength, providing standardized joints, upgrading of technology so that joints are easy to make and protect against weathering and discoloration. We’d like to thank Sulava, Rita, Srijana, Rammed Hari and Sanjay for their help.

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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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