I was wondering if you coated bamboo with ferro cement or adobe if it
would last as I the stuff grow wild here and some of it is 30 feet
high and quite thick. Shorter material 3/4" thick is very common.
This winter I am going to plant a couple acres by transplanting the
root systems.
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bamboo has a long history in structural use, In Germany there is a
huge palladim center of it, like an area , and in several of the UK
earth building books like Appropriate Building Materials book- they
have chapters on using bamboo in many ways,, You can read this book,
a $33. purchase if imported from the UK,, online for free. it is a
long sorta funky url and sub urls to get to it but well worth it
for a 300 page book that is complete in all aspects of building
naturally.
I can post the links here and view it that way. I put this book on
my CDs as it is so hard to navigate the darn urls, but try.
--
Ms. Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
www.dirtcheapbuilder.com www. papercrete.com
PO Box 375, Cutten CA 95534
http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=home&l=en&w=utf -8
To find the book "APPROPRIATE BUILDING MATERIALS" by Roland Stulz,
Kiran Mukerji 1993 see the link below.
If it WILL NOT open.. then
1. go to the library link:
http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=home&l=en&w=utf-8
2. then click on the>>> Humanity Development Library <<<< picture
3. USE THE SEARCH BAR- set it to "SECTION TITLES" << VERY
IMPORTANT the other options "chapters" or "entire books" will NOT
locate the book for some odd reason.
4. A long list of titles will pop up...SCROLL TO THE 2ND PAGE-- AND
SCROLL DOWN a bit -- YOU WILL SEE THIS LIST: the Appropriate
Building Materials BOOK- is about 8th on the list. [ may change if
more info is added to their site]
Appropriate building materials <<<<<<<<<< THIS IS IT THIS IS THE
COMPLETE LINK YOU CAN TRY TO PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER.
BUT- may not work as the site needs you to "click through" to get to it.
[use the blue links to expand the entire chapters/book to copy or
print, or read online. Best to download the entire book, and read at
your leisure.
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