The fast-growing and prolific bamboo plant has some in the construction industry wondering if its high-tensile strength and resilient nature make it a perfect fit for more sustainable building, ...

In trials of tensile strength, bamboo outperforms most other materials, reinforcement steel included. It achieves this strength through its hollow, tubular structure, evolved over millennia to resist ...

Steel-reinforced concrete is the most common building material in the world, and developing countries use close to 90% of the cement and 80% of the steel consumed by the global construction sector.

Drawing inspiration from the structure of bones and bamboo, researchers have found that by gradually changing the internal structure of metals they can make stronger, tougher materials that can be ...

GIRADOT, Colobia (AP) — Forget steel and concrete. The building material of choice for the 21st century might just be bamboo. This hollow-stemmed grass isn’t just for flimsy tropical huts any more – ...

From there, he deepened his knowledge of bamboo. Dubbing it a “miracle plant,” he said it is not only a carbon sink but also the only material he can manage entirely on his own — planting, harvesting ...

Dirk Hebel has received the SMART Innovation Grant and a Sawiris Scholarship. REHAU has helped with the chemical parts of his research. Bamboo, a common grass which can be harder to pull apart than ...