Chuli Building

Posted on | December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments

The more we work with bamboo, more confident we become on the strength and beauty of this  vegetal steel. It  makes one wonder, why isn’t this material used more in the modern construction, as there is nothing it cant do that steel would. Yet, its cheaper, available, beautiful and yet many times more ecological. Here is one of our offices that is under construction. The cost of construction is about $200 per truss, the span is five meters and total area is about 40 sq. meter. Its a combination of earth (compressed earth blocks) and bamboo. The amount of cement used is is less than 10 percent.

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Category: Bamboo, Construction, connection

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  1. andrew stanger
    March 8th, 2010 @ 1:23 am

    This is really excellent. Nice use of the bamboo to make trusses. What sort of life span do you see? and what species of bamboo do you use?
    Thanks Andrew

  2. admin
    April 8th, 2010 @ 9:07 pm

    We have treated our bamboo with boron compound and we do not expose our bamboo to weather condition, therefore we expect 40-50 years life span,

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