Starting A Bamboo Industry From Scratch
06/19/23 • 38 min
Sanne is a Bamboo U Alumni and an architect from Amsterdam. Together with her team, she is working on building an entire bamboo industry in Uganda- from plantation and harvesting to government support and building structures.
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In This Episode We Discuss:
4:05 Sanne’s First Bamboo Building Project
6:16 Building With Sustainable Materials In Uganda
7:20 Establishing The Overall System For A Bamboo Project To Be Possible
8:06 The Clients And Organisations Wanting To Build With Bamboo In Uganda
10:47 Setting Up A Bamboo Supply Chain
12:32 INBAR And Bamboo Seedlings
13:37 Setting Up A Database For Bamboo Uganda
14:43 Bamboo Species Of Africa
16:00 How Does Growing Bamboo Influence Your Designs
18:31 Bamboo Species Influencing Design
20:55 Opening A Bamboo Factory
22:18 Bamboo At The Nyege Nyege Music Festival
22:45 Building a 9000 sqm Bamboo Structure Over The Old Taxi Park In Uganda
25:35 Training Local Carpenters
28:18 Designing Within Constraints
31:35 Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are
32:40 Bringing The Right People Together
Learn more about Sanne and her team’s work:
Sanne is an alumni of both Bamboo U’s The Fundamentals Of Building Bamboo Online Course and our 11 Day Build and Design Course: https://www.bamboou.com/courses
Sanne is a Bamboo U Alumni and an architect from Amsterdam. Together with her team, she is working on building an entire bamboo industry in Uganda- from plantation and harvesting to government support and building structures.
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In This Episode We Discuss:
4:05 Sanne’s First Bamboo Building Project
6:16 Building With Sustainable Materials In Uganda
7:20 Establishing The Overall System For A Bamboo Project To Be Possible
8:06 The Clients And Organisations Wanting To Build With Bamboo In Uganda
10:47 Setting Up A Bamboo Supply Chain
12:32 INBAR And Bamboo Seedlings
13:37 Setting Up A Database For Bamboo Uganda
14:43 Bamboo Species Of Africa
16:00 How Does Growing Bamboo Influence Your Designs
18:31 Bamboo Species Influencing Design
20:55 Opening A Bamboo Factory
22:18 Bamboo At The Nyege Nyege Music Festival
22:45 Building a 9000 sqm Bamboo Structure Over The Old Taxi Park In Uganda
25:35 Training Local Carpenters
28:18 Designing Within Constraints
31:35 Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are
32:40 Bringing The Right People Together
Learn more about Sanne and her team’s work:
Sanne is an alumni of both Bamboo U’s The Fundamentals Of Building Bamboo Online Course and our 11 Day Build and Design Course: https://www.bamboou.com/courses
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Bamboo As A Round Pole Or A Square Plank
How do you build with bamboo in a context that is highly regulated? Jed Long began his journey of building with bamboo by constructing temporary structures at festivals and art installations for The Biennale of Sydney in Australia. Today, he has relocated to Bali to work on the manufacturing of cross-laminated bamboo with Indobamboo. He is passionate about increasing the uptake of bamboo for different contexts and purposes.
Jed is the Co-Founder of Cave Urban situated in Australia.
In This Episode We Discuss:
- 01:49 The Origins Of Cave Urban And Working With Bamboo In Australia
- 03:32 A Bamboo Exhibition: First Bamboo Project
- 05:39 Harvesting, Treating, Processing, And Building With Our Own Building
- 08:10 Harvesting Bamboo: Running vs Clumping Bamboo
- 09:20 Learning From Bamboo Masters
- 13:56 From Working in Unregulated To Regulated Spaces
- 14:44 Bamboo At The Sydney Biennale
- 17:53 What It's Like To Build With Bamboo Within Regulations
- 21:17 Building In Community
- 23:30 Education In Exchange For Labor
- 25:36 Agritecture: From Plant to Building
- 26:45 Creating A Culture Of Bamboo In Non-Bamboo Areas
- 29:45 Bamboo In Context
- 31:11 Indobamboo and Laminated Bamboo
- 34:24 The Challenges With Laminated Bamboo
- 38:58 Opportunities With Laminated Bamboo
- 40:40 ISO Standard For Engineered Bamboo Products
- 44:25 A Positive Future For The Built Environment
- 44:42 The Price Gap Between Bamboo and Conventional Materials
- 47:52 Durability
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Learn more about Jed’s work at:
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Learn more about bamboo and engineering during our upcoming courses: https://www.bamboou.com/courses
Next Episode
Bamboo and The Circular Economy
The circular economy is a set of principles which serve as a guide in how we use our resources in an efficient and sustainable way. Felix Bock is the CEO and the Founder of ChopValue and we are honored to have him as a guest on today’s episode, to talk about turning waste into a resource and building a movement around the circular economy.
In This Episode We Discuss:
- What is Chopvalue and Why Chopsticks?
- The Scale Of Waste
- Building A Movement Around The Circular Economy
- Starting A Microfactory
- The Connection Between Profit And Impact
- Non-Toxic Resins
- Creating Modular Components
- Creating Cradle To Cradle Products
- From Raw Material To High-Value End Product
- Developing A Market
- Creating Long Term Partnerships
- No Bad Ideas
- Employee Engagement
- Growing Responsibly
- Using Franchising As A Tool For Growth
- Hungry For Change
- Redefining Waste To Resource
- Scaling and Doing Good
Learn more about ChopValue and Felix’ work: https://chopvalue.com/
Felix is also a resident speaker and facilitator of The Bamboo U Online Course: The Fundamentals Of Building With Bamboo: https://www.bamboou.com/courses
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