Open a new way to conceive bamboo as an Engineering material
Turning CO2into homes, that’s the project the BambHaus Foundation wants to take up.
The project consists in building houses with Engineered bamboo based on Guadua bamboo fibres. The Engineered bamboo developed stores the carbon dioxide absorbed by the bamboo, avoids the emissions from replaced materials and so reduces CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Engineered bamboo The high performance of this material is due to the intrinsic properties of bamboo and its manufacturing process. The Bamboo absorbs more carbon than any other vegetable species because of its quick growth rate (≈ 21 cm/day).
Sustainable development
A human scale innovative project; The Engineered bamboo requires, for its fabrication, little energy and small machines to produce a high quality composite material. The innovative ease of this new composite manufacturing makes the whole project reproducible in other geographical areas.
Another advantage is the development of Latin American local economies where the manufacturing takes place; people will play the main part in the whole project. Locals will grow bamboo and create small networks of industries to turn Guadua into building materials and produce environment sustainable houses. Minimal dependency on technologies and resources from developed countries will be guaranteed.
