Bamboo is a versatile building material that can be used for scaffolding, bridges, houses, and other structures. It grows rapidly, has high strength comparable to steel, and is renewable. Bamboo foundations, walls, flooring, roofing, and scaffolding/beams can be used in construction. While bamboo must be preserved to prevent insect/fungus damage and special techniques are needed for joining and assembly, it is inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and earthquake resistant. However, more design guidance and building codes are needed for widespread structural use of bamboo in construction.

1. BAMBOO
It’s study as a structural
material in Building Construction

2. Introduction
Bamboo can be utilized as a building
material for scaffolding, bridges and houses.
Bamboo, like true wood, is a natural
composite material with a high strength-to-
weight ratio useful for structures. Bamboo
has a higher compressive strength than
wood, brick or concrete and a tensile
strength that rivals steel.
Bamboos are some of the fastest-growing
plants in the world, due to a unique
rhizome-dependent system.

3. Construction Applicability
1) Bamboo Foundations

4. Construction Applicability
2) Bamboo Walls

5. Construction Applicability
3) Bamboo Flooring and Roofing

6. Construction Applicability
4) Bamboo Scaffolding

7. Construction Applicability
4) Bamboo Column and Beam

8. Advantages
Bamboo is a renewable and versatile
resource, characterized by high strength and
low weight, and is easily worked using simple
tools. It is also durable and earthquake
resistant. It is widely recognized as one of the
most important non-timber forest resources
due to the high socio-economic benefits from
bamboo based products. It is environmental
friendly, accessible to the poor due to its cost
effectiveness and is highly productive.

9. Disadvantages
1. Requires preservation
2. Shaped by nature
3. Durability–Bamboo is subjected to attack by
fungi, insects; for this reason, untreated bamboo
structures are viewed as temporary with an
expected life of not more than 5 years.
4. Jointing–although many jointing techniques
exist, their structural efficiency is low.
5. Lack of design guidance and codes.
6. Prone to catch fire very fast by the friction
among the culms during wind, and is seen to
cause forest fires.

10. Construction Technology &
Treatments
Drying bamboo, Storing bamboo in
water or "leaching bamboo" are
traditional bamboo preservation
methods.
Borax- boric acid preservation
treatments: Bamboo is soaked in borax
boric acid for 2 days to allow the
mineral to penetrate in all the nodes
and diaphragms.

11. Conclusion
The properties of Bamboo as a top
grade building material and its
increased availability in our country
makes it possible to use, bamboo in
the field of construction extensively. Its
high valued utilization not only
promotes the economic development,
but also saves forest resources to
protect our ecological environment as
a wood substitute.

12. THANK YOU
Prepared by: Jhanvi Nimbark
Aashini Desai
Swetangi Antala
Bhoomi Patel