After two months of growth it is the size it will remain for its lifetime.īamboo is one of the most useful and practical plants for humankind, providing water storage, food, raw materials for household and garden use, musical instruments, and more. “This versatile and giant member of the grass family is able to grow more rapidly than any other plant. It has had an incredible number of practical uses throughout the centuries, including as a building material. It’s a renewable resource and can be grown locally.”īamboo-or ‘ohe in Hawaiian-is said to be one of the “canoe plants” brought here by early Polynesian settlers in their oceanic navigation. I went to a number of conferences sponsored by the Hawai‘i Bamboo Society, and that’s when I really got inspired to build with bamboo. “For over a decade I had been wanting to build an ecological bamboo frame house. “I’ve worked in construction, building custom homes in Honolulu for over 30 years,” he shares. One local resident, Danny Li-who loves bamboo-has invested the majority of his retirement funds, he says, into building a bamboo home that’s sustainable, functional, lightweight, and even portable! In his career, Danny was involved with million-dollar custom homes on O‘ahu before embarking on his bamboo building crusade on Hawai‘i Island. On the other hand, why not grow the bamboo here, support local farmers and build with local labor? The answer is complicated.
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They are actually approved by Hawai‘i building code authorities. Large plantations in Vietnam and Indonesia provide bamboo for homes in those regions, and enterprising businesses have brought them to Hawai‘i, after harvesting and building there, disassembling into a kit form, shipping it here and putting it back together. Here we must distinguish between building homes imported from elsewhere and building homes from bamboo grown in Hawai‘i.
There has been a lot of talk over the years about the viability of locally grown bamboo as a building material in Hawai‘i.
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