In the article, “An Architect’s Guide to Building with Bamboo”, Chlo Vadot states the advantages of bamboo and its uses in construction field. He has also included the bamboo growth and where it grows the most. In addition, the author has mentioned the bamboo’s characteristics and how it is harvested. Vadot has sited an expert who also emphasises bamboo usages. The author has mentioned the total number of bamboo species.

First of all, the article is not very clearly about bamboo full benefits, he just briefly explains bamboo strength and construction use. In the article, “Environmental, social and economic sustainability of bamboo and bamboo-based construction materials in buildings” Rashmi, Kim and Kim (2 May 2019), has further given explanations the features of bamboo, its workability strength and its actual uses with examples and other authors articles to support his explanation.

Secondly, Vadot has mentioned that bamboo that bamboo can be used in ceilings, there is no further details about bamboo ceiling designs. In the article, “Environmental, social and economic sustainability of bamboo and bamboo-based construction materials in buildings” Rashmi, Kim and Kim (2 May 2019), has listed many architects with names who uses bamboos intensively in their designs.

Furthermore, Vadot has mentions that it is hard to create standard code for 1200 species of bamboo. In the article, “Bamboo based biocomposites material, design and applications”, Suhaily et al. 2013 explains that there are 1575 different species of bamboo and ranging from woody to bamboo herd. Out all these, only 20-38 species are suitable for construction material.

Vadot has mentions that bamboo helps to reduce carbon. However, there is no further explanation to it and there is no clarity how bamboo helps environmentally. Bamboo benefits environmentally as it functions as a material that helps to control the soil erosion, use as a wastewater treatment, and absorb a huge amount of carbon dioxide. In the article “Environmental Impact of Guadua Bamboo” Schröder (2012) has further given explanations on the environment impact of bamboo by providing examples and statistics to support his explanation.

Lastly, the author has mentions the bamboo is naturally protected against microorganisms. However, in the article “Studies on dimensional stability, thermal degradation and termite resistant properties of bamboo (Bambusa tulda Roxb.) treated with thermosetting resins”, Deka M, Das P and Saikia C.N, explains that bamboo has to be treated to protect it from termites that was supported by their experiments.

References

Environmental, social and economic sustainability of bamboo and bamboo-based construction materials in buildings. Rashmi Manandhar, Jin-Hee Kim & Jun-Tae Kim, 02 May 2019.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13467581.2019.1595629