Engineered Bamboo Products – A Sustainable Choice?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Challenges, Strategies, and Goals
4. Introduction: Cultivated Building Materials 6
5. Production Back to The City 20
6. The Ape of Materials 26
7. The Industrialization of Timber – A Case Study 32
8. Standardization of a Natural Resource 40
9. Bamboo, a Cultivated Building Material
10. Introduction 46
11. Constructing with Engineered Bamboo 58
12. Upscaling The Bamboo Industry 72
13. The Ecological Impact of Industrially Cultivated Bamboo 80
14. Engineered Bamboo Products – A Sustainable Choice? 86
15. From Cultivated Materials to Building Products
16. Soil-Dependent Products. Agriculture 96
17. Wood Foam 100
18. Biopolymers: Cement Replacement 108
19. Biopolymers and Biocomposites Based on Agricultural Residues 116
20. Lignin-based Carbon Fibres 124
21. Nutrient-Dependent, Soil-Independent Products. Biotechnology 132
22. Fungal Mycelium Bio-Materials 134
23. Limestone-producing Bacteria: Self-healing Concrete 142
24. Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Multilayer/Multimaterial Coatings on Non-conductive Materials 148
25. Bio-Inspired Products. Biomimicry 156
26. Replicating Natural Design Strategies In Bio-Inspired Composites 158
27. Living Architecture (Liar): Metabolically Engineered Building Units 168
28. About the Authors and Contributors 176
29. Acknowledgments 180
30. Illustration Credits 181
31. Index of Persons, Firms, and Institutions 182
32. Index of Projects, Buildings, and Places 184