Masafumi Inoue & Shyam K. Paudel 
Modern Bamboo Structures [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the First International Conference

Bamboo materials are well available in the world. Bamboo has much shorter maturity than trees, thus can be harvested with shorter cycles of plantation. Despite the fact that human society has a long history of using bamboo, there is still a lack of modern and industrialized application of bamboo materials in construction. Promoting the application