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How would this work
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In many Asian countries a lot of roads, especially those in rural areas are hard to cross. Existing methods to provide good infrastructure such as concrete or asphalt are extremely expensive or very poor for the environment with a high maintenance cost as well as high skilled labor that needs to be imported.
Unnecessary as with a certain way of using bamboo (that is 20 cm thick in diameter at minimum), a locally grown and high surplus building material a very strong, durable, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure of high quality can be build.
Unnecessary as with a certain way of using bamboo (that is 20 cm thick in diameter at minimum), a locally grown and high surplus building material a very strong, durable, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure of high quality can be build.
Imagine a beam of bamboo. Cut on 2 places creating side two poles of equal length which is between 10 to 33% of the total length of the middle pole.* By cutting moon-shaped figures in the middle pole it can be squeezed between those 2 side poles created a solid fit.
By stacking the middle poles on top of each other the density increases and thus the weight it can carry traffic (such as cars or even trucks) *Example, if the side poles are 1 meter tall, the middle pole is between 3,3 to 10 meters tall. |
- About 1000 to 5000 times cheaper than asphalt & concrete (10 - 50 million euros per kilometer versus 10.000 euros per kilometer)
- No advanced labor is required compared to conventional methods
- No complex machinery is required compared to conventional methods
- Easily to be repaired / replaced compared to conventional methods
- 100% use of natural products, lowers the impact on nature
- Scalable according to needs