We have often talked in our articles about how bamboo is an excellent material suitable for green and sustainable architecture.

Today we are concretizing this aspect by participating in a Research and development project with Politecnico di Milano – department of architecture, construction engineering and built environment – Department Architecture, Built environment and Construction engineering A.B.C., who sees us as protagonists together with other leading companies in the sector to plan a future by researching new materials and investing in sustainable products.

But let’s see in more detail what green and sustainable architecture is.

Sustainable architecture (also known as Bioarchitecture, green building or bioecological architecture) deals with the design and construction of new buildings that can limit the environmental impacts while ensuring greater comfort to the inhabitants.

The 3 key elements that a sustainable building must possess are:

• Quality of life
• Environmental sustainability
• Energy saving

The Choice of Materials in Sustainable Architecture

One of the fundamental aspects to consider when talking about bioarchitecture is the choice and use of materials, these are evaluated according to certain ecological criterial:

• the natural origin of the material
• the energy expenditure that involves its extraction and processing
• its toxicity
• its effect on the climate
• its reaction to heat and humidity
• its electromagnetic behavior.

Bamboo is also called “vegetable steel” and is a natural resource particularly suitable for the construction of sustainable buildings

It is an evergreen plant that grows at any altitude and even in suboptimal climatic conditions, is very resistant and thanks to its ability to capture carbon dioxide (about 35% more than that absorbed by a forest of trees of the same size) has countless advantages for the environment.

One of his particular skills is to regenerate whenever it is cut (even the thinning of the reeds improves the silt) and is very important because it protects it from the process of deforestation increasingly common in recent years.

Among its performance it also boasts greater strength, traction and compression compared to other types of wood and materials used in construction where it is increasingly used for the design and construction of buildings with low environmental impact