Every year for just a few weeks, a towering bamboo theater rises from Ap Lei Chau, one of the world’s most densely populated islands. As many as 1,000 people will pack the 81-feet-wide, 130-feet-long, ...

BAMBOO isn’t often used to build homes in the Philippines, as many consider this as “a poor man’s material.” Base Bahay Foundation, Inc. is hoping to change this perception, as it pushes for the use ...

Bamboo is one of the world’s most useful plants. For thousands of years bamboo has been used in many different ways -- from food to medicine to clothing and, in small ways, as a building material.

The Bamboo Design and Build course at Bamboo U teaches students all the stages of building with bamboo in 11 days, culminating in a live construction project in Bali. Bamboo U’s 11-day Bamboo Design ...

Bamboo, the perennial and plentiful plant, is the next big thing in sustainable construction. For centuries, bamboo had been used for traditional ceremonies and as the primary material for building ...

Modified natural materials will be an essential component of a sustainable future, but first a detailed understanding of their properties is needed. The way heat flows across bamboo cell walls has ...

A Hyderabad couple grappled with debts, depression and kidnappings in their bid to promote eco-friendly, sustainable homes to give a livelihood to tribal artisans Three months into their marriage, a ...

WHAT will it take to build and sustain a supply chain that will bring bamboo from the farmlands to the markets while attracting a continuous line of investment from the public and private sectors ...

Workers assemble a bamboo porch for a hotel at a bamboo company in Shangyou County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Oct. 26, ...

It is perplexing why Haiti, a seismically active country, continues to allow construction of dangerous concrete homes that collapse on residents during earthquakes. So many lives are being senselessly ...