6 Bamboo is a favoured plant among architects and designers because of its

incredible strength and durability. One Colombian architect ' Z] to it

as nature’s steel, but in many respects it is even better than steel: it is lighter
and more flexible. and these 2 [:1 make it the ideal building material
in areas that suffer earthquakes and severe weather patterns. Construction
workers in places such as Hong Kong rely on bamboo scaffolding whatever
the 3 |:| of the tower block they may be working on; over a billion
people around the world live in a home that is made of bamboo; and China
‘ [:l the plant for thousands of years. The only drawback to this
remarkable product is the cost of transporting it. So for those 5 I:
live in cooler regions of the world, the enormous advantages of this natural
building material are less accessible.

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