Bamboo was promoted as an alternative for timber at the summit.Experts were of the opinion that with the use of new technologies bamboos can be converted into construction materials stronger than ...

No single building type or material will allow us to build our way out of our climate and decarbonization challenges. We need to reuse and renovate what we already have and when we do build new, we ...

To maintain ecological balance, at least 25% of a country's landscape should be covered in forests. However, the forestland and forest resources in the country continue to deplete at an alarming rate ...

Mass timber has been hailed as the solution to architecture’s notorious sustainability problem – that buildings account for nearly 40% of global energy use is by now a worn and overcited fact. But ...

Entrepreneur Development Minister Redzuan Yusof says the government hopes to tap into bamboo’s many uses to help grow Sabah’s economy. The government is looking at promoting bamboo as an alternative ...

Q. It has been suggested that timber bamboo be planted instead of oaks along Kirby Drive because it grows fast and the roots would not break the sidewalk. How much shade would you get? How much space ...

SIBANG KAJA, Indonesia — Strong, light and cheaper than steel poles, bamboo is ubiquitous across Asia as scaffolding. So much so that in recognition of the material’s versatility, the Indonesian ...

Bamboo is one of the most important non-timber forest products in the world. About 2.5 billion people depend economically on bamboo, and international trade in bamboo amounts to over 2.5 billion US ...

FANNING out from the sodden delta of the Yangtze, and southward to the flanks of the Nanling mountains, over 6m hectares of emerald bamboo groves—one-fifth of the world’s reserves—flourish in China.