Bamboo Connected: Rethinking bamboo connections: designing a simplified system for connecting bamboo in order to develop housing units for a determinate target population in Ecuador

Bamboo has been used as a construction material since ancient times in tropical and subtropical parts of the world, because of the fastgrowing process, low cost and compressive, tensile and bending strength, that allow to create a lightweight and earthquake resistant structures. After 3 to 5 years bamboo is ready to harvest, and one clump of...

Re connecting bamboo: Development and structural evaluation of connections for construction of a prefabricated housing unit using engineered bamboo

Today, the world is continuously looking forward towards sustainable solutions for building construction, thus the interest and the need for sustainability is continuously growing. With growing issues related to the environment and sustainability, Bamboo being one of the answers is one such sustainable material that has a lot of potentials to be...