Sustainable building with bamboo panels
Sustainability
In today’s builder’s trade for the private and public sector, the issue of sustainable building is taking an ever increasing roll. Until recently the focus of sustainable building was on energy savings and reducing Co2 emissions. Sustainable building however, can be interpreted in a much broader sense.The manufacturing and origin of building materials play a very important role.
Bamboo as an ecological alternative
Bamboo maybe viewed as an ecological alternative to global deforestation.Bamboo Solutions therefore becomes a valuable supplier to the interior building market with durable and ecological sensible materials.
Advantages
In addition to the positive contribution to the environment bamboo products have many other advantages. Bamboo flooring is 27% harder then for example oak, it has a very low expansion and shrink rate and after finishing with oil or lacquer is very resistant to moisture. Bamboo panels and parquet are available in various styles and colours and can be a replacement for almost all wood types used in building interiors.The difference between wood and bamboo
Using wood means cutting down trees and in many cases this means deforestation of the tropical rainforests. We have all been informed of the consequences of the global deforestation for tropical hardwoods. Utilizing Bamboo combats deforestation. Oak needs an average of 50 years to mature and several tropical hardwoods require between 80 and 100 years before they can be used. And of course you have to plant new trees to replace the cut trees. With Bamboo this is not the case; bamboo is from the grass family and re-grows itself. The root systems run far below the surface and produce new shoots each season. The bamboo (phyllostachys pubescens) used for building materials can be harvested every 5-6 years. A new bamboo shoot grows to its full mature size in one season and replaces the cut lengths within months; no loss of bamboo forest is therefore noticeable. Bamboo harvests are regulated by the government. In assigned regions all new shoots are date marked to exactly map how much and when can be harvested. The stocks of bamboo are so extensive that there is no danger of deforestation and can easily handle the steady increase in demand.Diversity and finish
Manufacturers of ecological wood oils and lacquers offer extensive collections of lacquers and oils as well as maintenance products. Within their assortments they offer many colors suitable for applications on bamboo. This creates a large diversity in style and finish.
Bamboo Solutions
Europalaan 24 6199 AB Maastricht-Aachen Airport (NL)tel.: +31 (0)43 631 26 21 - fax: +31 (0)43 631 26 33
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