“Bamboo can grow in 4-7 years what it would take 30-60 years to grow in timber” - Donald Davies, ‘Designing with Mass Timber & Bamboo’ from the CarbonPositive conference @Arch2030

#Bamboo has huge potential as a construction material. With low #embodied carbon, #sequestering capability and a short growth-span, not to mention potential #affordability at scale, bamboo can offer viable alternative to both concrete and plastic in the built environment...

...at a site up in Tanga, #Tanzania, we're growing different species of bamboo to assess their suitability for construction. We're also working on a farmhouse which showcases some different ways to use bamboo at a building scale including roof, doors, cladding and furniture