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Using Bamboo for Construction: GRIHA Summit 2015

The session was chaired by Mr. Subhash Chand Mehrotra. Mr. John Hardy highlighted the sustainability aspect of the bamboo plant and showcased some facts about its growth and readily replenishable nature. He said that bamboo is the most sustainable material for rapidly increasing building industries. He also said that to use the bamboo for building, it is harvested after three years of planting. It provides a virtually endless supply of sustainable material for making permanent buildings. He spoke about how people have been living in bamboo buildings since a very long time. He showcased a bamboo bridge built in 1930 located in Java. Mr. John Hardy further illustrated many innovative ideas being implemented at the Green School such as solar PV supported by bamboo, turbine to generate electricity through vortex, strainer for river, composting the biomass from stained garbage, plastic bags reused to make shipping barge which is made of 15 kg of waste plastic, etc. Mr. Subhash Chand Mehrotra in his keynote address discussed the characteristics of bamboo, for structural use in buildings. Through his presentation, he explained that the new codes have information about different bamboo types available in India and their characteristics for structural use. He cited an example of a Jain temple that has used bamboo, as the reinforcement material instead of steel. In that structure, bamboo was used in piles, columns, slabs, beams, etc. He also emphasized that more research is required to bring bamboo to the mainstream of the building construction industry.