Bamboo reinforced prefabricated wall panels for low cost housing

Puri, Vishal; Chakrabortty, Pradipta; Anand, Sourav; Majumdar, Sumit K.

doi:10.1016/j.jobe.2016.11.010

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“…Some [21] studied the physiological adaptation of the original inhabitants of an area. Some others [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] focused on the building technologies or designs that improve thermal comfort whilst others dealt with the effect of the special thermal environment on occupants' thermal comfort in these areas. The majority of Tibet lies within the 'cold' and the 'severe cold' zones of China [29], which, according to several studies in these climate zones, have a lower comfort temperature range than those in warmer zones, [10,[30][31][32].…”

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A study of thermal comfort in residential buildings on the Tibetan Plateau, China

Yao

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Building and Environment

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Tibet is located on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China, the highest and largest plateau in the world. It is in the Cold and Severe Cold zones according to the Chinese climatic division for building design and has unique climatic characteristics and traditional cultural background. In order to obtain a comprehensive understanding about the real indoor thermal environment and the residents' thermal comfort status in Tibet, a field investigation of residential buildings was conducted in the Tibetan Alpine region with on-site environmental parameter measurements and a simultaneous survey using a subjective thermal comfort questionnaire. Based on the analysis of the data collected from the field study, the value of the adaptive coefficient λ in the adaptive thermal comfort model aPMV= PMV 1+λPMV suitable to the Tibet area has been obtained as-0.34; and thus the acceptable thermal comfort temperature range for residential buildings in this area has been produced. The research findings provide comprehensive knowledge and a useful reference for the development of a design and evaluation standard for indoor thermal environments in the Tibet region.

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A study of thermal comfort in residential buildings on the Tibetan Plateau, China

Yao

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“…Puri et al [35] • By reviewing these studies, the benefits can be classified into five categories: (1) large-scale and fast growth, (2) lightweight and high strength, (3) low-cost, (4) environmentally friendly, and (5) social benefit. The details of these benefits are elaborated as follows.…”

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“…The material is used to build simple houses, particularly in many less-developed areas of the world; thus, it is also called "wood of the poor". In India, for example, there are low-cost houses with reinforced and prefabricated bamboo wall panels, and it has been demonstrated that the cost of these bamboo buildings is very low [35].…”

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The Benefits and Barriers for Promoting Bamboo as a Green Building Material in China—An Integrative Analysis

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Bamboo is commonly considered as a green, environmentally friendly material. However, it appears that bamboo finds limited application in the form of green building materials in the Chinese construction sector. In order to explain this phenomenon and promote the material’s application, this study summarizes the benefits of applying bamboo materials and presents an analysis on barriers affecting the effective application of bamboo materials in this specific building sector. Research data are collected from both literature surveys and semi-structured interviews with a group of carefully selected experts from the Chinese building sector. Fifteen characteristic barriers are identified, such as ineffective action by government departments. An integrative analysis is conducted, including investigation on the hierarchy structure among characteristic barriers using the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) method and the classification of barriers from a driving-driven perspective using the Cross-impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification (MICMAC) technique. This classification provides a different profile for the characteristic barriers from that of traditional barrier analysis methods. The findings provide valuable references for helping policy makers and practitioners adopt effective policies and measures to promote the application of bamboo for green materials in building sector.

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“…), reuse of waste material (e.g. fly-ash, rice husk) (Srivastava & Kumar, 2018) , & Hagel, 2014;Puri, Chakrabortty, Anand, & Majumdar, 2017) has promise and merits further investigation.…”

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Bridging India’s housing gap: lowering costs and CO₂ emissions

Mastrucci

Rao

2018

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More than 60 million homes in India are unfit for decent living. Replacing this stock with decent housing will entail significant costs and increase energy consumption and related CO 2 emissions due to both upfront and long-term energy requirements. This paper assesses the life cycle costs (LCC), life cycle energy (LCE) and CO 2 emissions impacts of filling the current housing gap with different building materials and technologies, and maintaining reasonable standards of indoor temperature and humidity. These outcomes are assessed under different climatic conditions and residential behavioural patterns, using urban and rural housing archetypes, and considering conventional as well as low-cost materials and energy-savings measures. The results demonstrate that stabilized-earth blocks are a preferred solution to the prevailing norm of fired bricks. Along with filler slab and roof insulation, they offer a win-win solution to reduce both LCC by 18% and LCE by 17% compared with conventional techniques in bridging the housing gap. LCE savings can be further increased to 28% without increasing the investment cost compared with conventional solutions. The insights provided by this study on abatement costs and efficacy can be used by policy-makers for affordable housing and climate-related policies.

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Bamboo reinforced prefabricated wall panels for low cost housing

Cited by 76 publications

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A study of thermal comfort in residential buildings on the Tibetan Plateau, China

A study of thermal comfort in residential buildings on the Tibetan Plateau, China

The Benefits and Barriers for Promoting Bamboo as a Green Building Material in China—An Integrative Analysis

Bridging India’s housing gap: lowering costs and CO₂ emissions

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A study of thermal comfort in residential buildings on the Tibetan Plateau, China

A study of thermal comfort in residential buildings on the Tibetan Plateau, China

The Benefits and Barriers for Promoting Bamboo as a Green Building Material in China—An Integrative Analysis

Bridging India’s housing gap: lowering costs and CO2 emissions

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