| dc.description.abstract | Most of designers in all over the world
thoroughly concerned about sustainable designs. Natural
Materials such as wood is mainly considered as sustainable
building materials. But now there is a scarcity of wood in Sri
Lanka because of over using. Because of these circumstances,
some countries try to use Bamboo as a sustainable and
renewable building material in building construction.
In Sri Lanka Bamboo is only using for temporary Structures
as a material even though, Bamboo is fast and easy growing
plant in Sri Lankan tropical climate which has an easy access,
Bamboo is not a prominent building material in Sri Lanka
when building permanent structures. But Bamboo is a good
material that using in some other countries in Asia like China,
Bali, Nepal and India.
In those countries they have techniques for enhance the
natural qualities of Bamboo wood as a construction material.
So if we can use adopt this techniques to our industry it will
be a good solution for our construction industry. If it is
possible to adopt those techniques for Sri Lankan context
that will be a help to develop the sustainable designs with
using Bamboo as a building material.
So, this research will be mainly consider about the
techniques that they are using for enhancing the natural
qualities of bamboo and how we can adopt them to Sri
Lankan construction industry. Other than that, the viability
of adopting those techniques and using the Bamboo as a
building material for permanent structures in Sri Lanka also
will be discussed. | |
