Training on bamboo as alternative to wood
By A City Reporter
GUWAHATI, Feb 25 Often termed as poor mans timber, bamboo, with its various
new applications can well be an alternative housing solution for the earthquake
prone areas due to its high tensile strength structurally.
Exploring the use of bamboo as an alternative to the rapidly depleting wood
resources in housing and other industrial activities, a three-day residential
training programme on modern bamboo structures and housing will be organised at
Kohra, Kaziranga National Park from March 6 to 8, 2008. The programme is
jointly organised by Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre and Building Materials
and Technology Promotion Council under the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Poverty Alleviation.
The programme aims to provide technical know-how on the use of the bamboo
technology as a whole, particularly in the housing sector and in varied
structural applications.
For the first time a workshop of such magnitude on bamboo technology is being
organised in Kaziranga dealing with the new applications of bamboo other than
the traditional use, said the sources in the CBTC.
The programme, targeting the civil engineers, architects, consultants,
builders, developers contractors, entrepreneurs and NGOs among others, would
have partici-pants mainly from North East as well as neighbouring Nepal.
The training programme would elaborately deal with the topics including bamboo
of NE India, availability and suitability for building construction, the
structure of bamboo and its mechanical and engineering properties, durability
and preservation of bamboo, code an standards bamboo in building construction,
bamboo structures for eco-tourism and earthquake prone areas, introduction to
bamboo applications for industrial and housing materials, engineered bamboo
products and its usefulness in housing industry, bamboo construction for rural
housing and bamboo policies and impact on national and regional developmental
issues.
In order to tap the abundant bamboo resources of the North East; the North
Eastern Council (NEC) launched the North East Regional Bamboo Mission aimed at
sustainable development of the bamboo sector. The CBTC, established in 2000 is
a registered body under the auspices of the NEC, which is carrying out the
mandate of the North East Bamboo Mission since October 2004.
The CBTC has now undertaken a wide range of bamboo constructions in and around
the NE region both in public and private sectors.
On the other hand, the BMTPC is actively involved in developing bamboo-based
technologies and promoting those technologies in the bamboo growing areas
including the North East.
(The Assam Tribune,26.02.2008)
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