Use of Bamboo in Building Construction and its advantages

Hello friends, In this article today I will discuss use of bamboo in building construction and also its advantages in construction works, many students they don’t know that the use of bamboo in construction  works so let’s get start.

Use of Bamboo in Building Construction

Bamboo is a building materials which has high compressive strength , and it has low weight therefore bamboo is a good building materials which used as a support for concrete. Mostly bamboo is used for the construction of scaffolding , bridge and also its used in houses construction.

Bamboo has a long and well-established tradition as a building material throughout the world’s tropical and sub-tropical regions. It is widely used for many forms of construction, in particular for housing in rural areas.

Composite bamboo/concrete columns: a concrete extension is given to bamboo post using a plastic tube of the same diameter. The result is a bamboo post with an integral durable foundation

Advantages of Bamboo

1: Bamboo is a good building materials which easily to cut.2: Bamboo is suitable building materials for all structure in construction works.

3: the surface of bamboo is natural is smooth and clean and no need to painting or polishing.

4: Bamboo can also used the place of steel because its tensile stress is more than 6 time of Steel reinforcement.