No single building type or material will allow us to build our way out of our climate and decarbonization challenges. We need to reuse and renovate what we already have and when we do build new, we ...

Q. It has been suggested that timber bamboo be planted instead of oaks along Kirby Drive because it grows fast and the roots would not break the sidewalk. How much shade would you get? How much space ...

To maintain ecological balance, at least 25% of a country's landscape should be covered in forests. However, the forestland and forest resources in the country continue to deplete at an alarming rate ...

Climate change has been threatening the very existence of humankind. If it could lead to the disappearance of mighty ...

Bamboo was promoted as an alternative for timber at the summit.Experts were of the opinion that with the use of new technologies bamboos can be converted into construction materials stronger than ...

Before lumber and engineered wood products became a curse and a prayer, even before COVID-19 struck, a start-up prefab company out of Sonoma County, CA, anted-up some early funding round cash for an ...

Entrepreneur Development Minister Redzuan Yusof says the government hopes to tap into bamboo’s many uses to help grow Sabah’s economy. The government is looking at promoting bamboo as an alternative ...

When producer Lesley Chilcott accepted the Oscar in 2007 for best documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," it was perhaps fitting that she was wearing a dress made from bamboo. Yes, bamboo. "Bamboo is ...

In the heart of Mandalay, Burma, a small cluster of bamboo houses has become a symbol of resilience. When a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar earlier this year, the ground around them ...