Go Green in Buildings

The NMBA undertakes turnkey projects for the construction and erection of prefabricated bamboo buildings and structures at competitive and attractive costs.

Types of structures:

For schools, colleges and universities:

• Classrooms
• Seminar rooms
• Laboratories
• Dormitories
• One room/ two rooms houses
• Guest house
• Cafeteria
• Open air café
• Toilets
• Office cabins

For Medical and Public Health Institutions

• Health sub centre
• Primary Health Centre
• Small Hospital building
• Housing and toilets for staff
• Canteen
• Office cabins

For Public Sector Corporations and Companies

• Portable Office cabins
• Site offices
• Temporary housing for workers and staff
• Permanent or temporary fencing

For Private use

• Housing in gardens, terraces, roof
• Toilets

For Tourism Facilities

• Cottages
• Open air cafes
• Gazebos
• Decorative structures

Other types of offices, institutions and organizations can also commission pre-engineered bamboo structures which are particular to their requirements and design.

Technical attributes and specifications

• Durable (30 years life) and weather resistant
• Designed for withstanding high winds and earthquake resistant
• Aesthetically pleasing and functional and fire resistant 
• Good thermal and acoustic properties
• Eco-friendly, energy saving in manufacture & in usage
• Light weight, modular and interchangeable
• Quick and easy to erect and re-erect and transported with
• minimum effort
• Cost effective with the cost excluding plinth of approx. Rs.500 per sq.ft.

Advantages over competing choices

• Cheaper compared to cement/ RCC structures
• Easily the best “green” alternative
• Is better compared to other portable alternatives (mainly plastic and wood ply based) both in terms of cost and environmental benefits.
• Ease of administrative approvals: practically no prior approvals etc. required.
• Easy to maintain and repair
• Easy and cheap to relocate the structures

Bamboo the best green building material

• Bamboo is grass, not timber
• Foremost and fastest in biomass production. Highly renewable: regenerates in 2-3 years (timber takes 25 years or more)
• Most efficient in carbon sequestration 
• Excellent remedy for soil erosion
• The best natural engineering material
• Energy efficient : requires 1/3rd of energy compared to timber, 1/8th of energy compared to cement and 1/50th of energy for processing equivalent mild steel

For conception, design and implementation of bamboo building projects:

Contact:

Mr. Sanjiv Nair Mission Director National Mission on Bamboo Applications, Department of Science and Technology, 2nd Floor, Vishwakarma Bhawan,Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi-110016 Off:91-11-26566778 Fax: 91-11-26962267 Website: www.bambootech.org

Mr. Ajay Kumar Mission Coordinator National Mission on Bamboo Applications, Department of Science and Technology, 2nd Floor, Vishwakarma Bhawan, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi-110016 Off: 91-11-20901184, Fax: 91-11-26962267 Mob: 09810222969 E-mail: akumar@bambootech.org Website: www.bambootech.org