How Durable is Bamboo?
Without any protective treatment, most bamboo species have an average natural durability of less than 2 years. Stored under cover, untreated bamboo may last 4-7 years.
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American Bamboo Species
Contrary to what many believe, bamboo doesn’t originate from Asian countries alone, it is also abundant and native in America. In fact the world’s strongest bamboo is American.
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What is Guadua angustifolia?
For centuries bamboo has been used in everyday life and in many different cultures throughout the world. A gigantic and extraordinary type, known as Guadua angustifolia ‘Kunth’, is considered one of the best bamboo species for commercial farming. In 1822, the German botanist Kunth described Guadua as a genus segregated from the Asian one, Bambusa. Kunth used
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Bamboo Lashing Manual
Bamboo is one of the most useful plants as it can be used to make houses, traps, cages, furniture, tools, weapons, bridges, rafts, towers, fences, water wheels, irrigation pipes, and thousands of other items. The challenge however, is learning how to connect those bamboo canes.
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Guadua Bamboo Parking Garage The Hague
The Guadua Bamboo Parking Garage in the Hague is the first of several upcoming projects in The Netherlands. With 7 levels it can provide parking space for around 250 vehicles. The entire facade is covered with Guadua angustifolia poles imported from Colombia.
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Guadua Bamboo Treehouse Built Around a Living Tree in Colombia
What started as a request for a small bamboo dollhouse ended up as a 3-floor family bamboo treehouse built around a century-old Ceiba tree on a hacienda in Buga, Valle del Cauca. Colombian architect Jaime Peña designed the structure in 2014, but it remains one of the most ambitious uses of Guadua Bamboo Slats in
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Corrugated Bamboo Roofing Sheets
An Untapped Opportunity for Latin America Imagine if all Central and South American homes, offices and sheds would use corrugated roofs made from bamboo instead of metal or plastic, and imagine if all these roofs were produced from locally available native bamboo forests and plantations… Anybody who is familiar with Latin America knows that almost
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How to Split Bamboo Poles
Splitting bamboo poles, is another basic technique when working with bamboo. Split bamboo is often used in bamboo fences, wall decoration, furniture, etc. The applications are endless and it basically all depends on your own creativity.
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How to Bend Bamboo Poles
Bending bamboo, isn’t that difficult. In case of freshly cut, green bamboo you could even dry bamboo in a mold to adjust the shape, or by applying heat. However, once dry, bamboo cannot be bend anymore (in a permanent lasting shape that is), unless you apply a special technique that we explain in this article!
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Bamboo Polo Balls
During most of the 20th century, polo balls were traditionally made from bamboo rhizomes because they were significantly tougher and less prone to cracking than early standard wooden balls. Originating in India, where the first modern polo club was established in 1859, these dense, hand-carved bamboo polo balls became the global standard for generations. Today,
Bamboo Cables
Marco Polo was the first to reveal the domestic value and importance of bamboo to the Western World trough his historic travels in Asia. Among many other discoveries, he described how the Chinese used and manufactured bamboo cables for towing boats. In fact, engineers experimenting for the Whangpoo Conservancy Board found out that these twisted and plaited bamboo cables
Environmental Impact of Guadua Bamboo
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 and conserve biodiversity.
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