“Bamboo is viewed in Indonesia a little bit as a kind of poor man’s timber,” he told Fast Company. First, Dawydzik and his team of engineers met with local people to ascertain what their needs were so that they didn't impose their western ideas on the designs.Ĭonvincing people to use bamboo was an issue because even though it was readily available and used in Indonesia for construction, there was a stigma attached to it. That's when he began to work on a bamboo design that would be able to withstand earthquakes. "What I found even more disturbing was that communities had already started rebuilding with the same absence of structural integrity that had existed in the destroyed buildings!” This was not an unusually powerful earthquake for the region, but lack of reinforcement in the buildings meant the damage, and consequential loss of life, was far greater than it should have been. According to a company press release, he said, " Villages were flattened with bricks and rubble scattered all around, in many cases the building foundations were all that remained. That's when he came to Indonesia to see the destruction first-hand. “I thought, I’m an engineer, working for an engineering company,” he said. The engineer became involved in the project after he found out that a friend living in Lombok's bamboo house survived while her neighbors poorly constructed concrete homes did not. “As the earthquake happens, the house will move a little bit and wobble and shake.īut that actually means that the energy is being dissipated, and all that movement makes it survive very strong earthquakes,” Dawydzik said. “Bamboo is a lightweight material, and it’s very strong,” Marcin Dawydzik, a structural engineer at the London office of Ramboll, the engineering, design, and consulting company that designed a template for the bamboo houses told Fast Company. Now, a new project is helping villages in the area rebuild with bamboo according to Fast Company. After a series of earthquakes most of the concrete buildings near the epicenter were damaged or destroyed. For a building to be earthquake proof, it needs to be strong enough and light weight, as well as flexible enough to move to be able to withstand shaking.īamboo construction was earthquake tested in 2018 on the Indonesian island of Lombok. This is especially important in earthquake prone areas of the world like Indonesia. Flexible and lightweight, Bamboo is a sustainable building material that is actually stronger than wood, bricks or even concrete. Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world.
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