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One hectare of Guadua Bamboo Forest can store over 30,000 liters of water in its culms during rainy season which it gradually deposits back in the soil during dry season.

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Bamboo forests have many environmental benefits because they function as carbon sinks, produce oxygen, control soil erosion, provide organic matter, regulate water levels in watersheds, conserve biodiversity, beautify the landscape, and essentially contribute to the purification and regulation of the environment.

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Using bamboo-based construction materials has been identified as a potential way of reducing pressure on resources and on the environment. These materials have environmental and mechanical advantages over conventional construction materials

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Using bamboo-based construction materials has been identified as a potential way of reducing pressure on resources and on the environment. These materials have environmental and mechanical advantages over conventional construction materials

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652614000894

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A History of Bamboo Flooring. As a building material, bamboo has been used over centuries to build simple shelters and huts as well as to construct fencing, retaining walls, piers, barns, towers and bridges, as well as scaffolding and ladders used to build them.

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So what makes bamboo different?

Bamboo has the benefit of being rapidly renewable and sustainably forested

The fast-paced rate of growth is one of bamboo’s most outstanding environmental benefits

Bamboo flooring is well recognised for its hypo-allergenic properties

Being a natural and beautiful-looking product it can match all types of decor and most of our products can be finished with a range of colour stain/lacquer options

Bamboo suits modern and traditional decor making it a very versatile product

It’s incredibly tough and durable – with a greater tensile strength by weight, than steel!

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bamboo fibers are up to 1 cm long, while those of wood are approximately 2 mm long. With strength up yo 40 kN/cm2, bamboo easily surpasses timber fibers (approximately 5 kN/cm2), or even some steel (36 kN/cm2).

Its capacity to absorb energy and the higher bending strength makes this bamboo an ideal material for earthquake resistant builds.

Bamboo possesses only a small proportion of lignin. Its main component is silicic acid, which gives the shoot its durability and hardness. The tissues composition of guadua is 40% fiber, 51% parenchyma and 9% conductive tissue, which explains its strength and flexibility.

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Stronger than hardwood

A thermal density heat treatment process alters the hardness, dimensional stability and durability of the bamboo decking to a level superior to the best hardwood species. This process removes all living micro organisms and sugar, preventing rot and mould.

Research proves this process is the most effective method (and currently the only efficient solution) to ensure that bamboo is suitable for outdoor applications.

No other bamboo decking used, utilises this process and Plantation is the exclusive supplier of this product in New Zealand.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Your group is to research and produce an image and text base brainstorm on the selected alternative building construction method.

Areas of research may include (but not limited to):

History

Design and Construction

Material Use

Environmental Impact

Thermal Mass / Stored Heat Dissipation

Passive Heating and Cooling

Example buildings

Orientation and Site Analysis

Waste

Some resources that may be of use to get you started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_construction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vVvxJdQSEs

http://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/engineered-bamboo/

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Bamboo has less contraction and expansion

Unlike traditional hardwood products bamboo is a more stable alternative with expansion and contraction up to 2.5 times less than commonly used solid woods such as Oak. This is important in the New Zealand environment as the humidity changes can cause cupping and warping in solid wood floors & staircases.

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The manufactured bamboo flooring commonly found in North American markets is very highly processed. A Bamboo flooring is typically made by slicing mature bamboo poles or culms into strips. These culms are crosscut to length and then sliced into strips depending on the width desired.

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Stronger than hardwood
A thermal density heat treatment process alters the hardness, dimensional stability and durability of the bamboo decking to a level superior to the best hardwood species. This process removes all living micro organisms and sugar, preventing rot and mould.

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House made entirely of bamboo. Bamboo can be utilized as a building material as for scaffolding, bridges and houses. Bamboo, like true wood, is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures.

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Ecodure Bamboo Flooring is the ideal flooring choice. It's aesthetically beautiful, offering clean and elegant lines and clarity of colour. Ecodure Flooring is sustainable, durable, dent and scratch resistant and even cost effective... the benefits of an Ecodure Bamboo Floor just keep coming.

Durable
Bamboo Flooring is the hardest "wood" flooring on the market - harder, stronger, and more stable than most other timber floors with a tensile strength to rival steel.

Allergy Friendly
Ecodure Bamboo Floors are ideal for people with dust or pet allergies as the tight UNICLIC WaxPro coated joins means there is little chance of dust mites or pet dander gathering.