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Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by maasoap(m): 5:56pm On Oct 20, 2023

Crenzywilliams:
I hate it when people start giving insights into things they know nothing about. FYI, bamboo have a higher tensile strength than iron rods and it is actually a very good replacement for it. It's very unconventional, agreed, but using bamboo does not affect the integrity of the structure, it actually is a very good alternative. That's coming from a material science engineer, that also took time to do the research before he made this comment.

I have been aware of this information more than a decade ago.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by AfroBeatDiary: 6:06pm On Oct 20, 2023

Bamboo don't rot except there is a vacuum and if you look closely, those are selected bamboo, not the fat ones but thing, those are the type we use to pluck fruit with the help of harvester. They are usually stunted bamboo that is old but not fat so they have more stensil strength but of course not as iron.

I'll carry out a mini project using this style, I see no structural defect and I repeat, it takes a structural engineer to understand the science behind this

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by intruder15(m): 6:07pm On Oct 20, 2023

Jewessgratitud3:
Nice move. Bamboo sticks are very strong and durable. It will last. House na house. After all na pako oyinbo take dey build their house.

Hope you are joking right?

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Peterpanny: 6:10pm On Oct 20, 2023

yarimo:
But everyone is millionaire and billionaire in that side na

if tribalism no destroy nothing else will

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by donvicky2007: 6:11pm On Oct 20, 2023

Civil Engineering Secrets https: //www.linkedin dot com/mwlite/newsletters/7028051338215227392

Bamboo and iron rods have their comparative advantages and disadvantages in building projects.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by StJasper(m): 6:12pm On Oct 20, 2023

Jewessgratitud3:
Nice move. Bamboo sticks are very strong and durable. It will last. House na house. After all na pako oyinbo take dey build their house.

Can you allow your kids live in such a building?

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Fujiyama: 6:18pm On Oct 20, 2023

Great thread. I have learnt a lot.

What I can say from my own use of locally available bamboo as a stake for horticulture is...it degrades over time once it is placed in a moist medium like soil. It simply rots away, although the bamboo I used did not have any kind of chemical treatment to prevent this. But the bigger question of whether bamboo can support heavy concrete loads at upper levels still remains -some posters are very clear that this is a no no.

My question is this: having gone through a thread like this, how can we accept lawyers (or any other non-engineers) with no civil engineering experience as ministers of works & housing in this country? undecided

Questions like those raised on this thread WILL come up in the course of the minister's duties. So he becomes a mere spectator or a pawn in the hands of ministry staff when the technical issues come up?

Which then leads to the next question...has an engineer ever been appointed minister of justice in this country? If not, why?

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by UrPapa: 6:20pm On Oct 20, 2023

DodadaKoKigbe:
Nonsense. There's NO Anambra man that can EVER complain about the cost of building materials. EVERY single Anambra man is a BILLIONAIRE in dollars.

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Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Popeonah(m): 6:21pm On Oct 20, 2023

CoronaVirusPro:
And when it collapses, the government will be blamed.

It's not going to collapse, it's also used but the life expectancy is 41 years

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by mariahAngel(f): 6:27pm On Oct 20, 2023

Jewessgratitud3:
Nice move. Bamboo sticks are very strong and durable. It will last. House na house. After all na pako oyinbo take dey build their house.

If it's an all wood bungalow, with no concrete, then there would've been nothing to worry about.
Concrete would definitely weigh heavy on the woods, causing the building to collapse eventually.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by mariahAngel(f): 6:29pm On Oct 20, 2023

yarimo:
But everyone is millionaire and billionaire in that side na

Yes, they are.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by KosiGee(m): 6:50pm On Oct 20, 2023

SLIDEwaxie:
as a building technologist, just take it. He's told you the truth. You can Google it. It is a practical we did in school way back. Yes, bamboo can be used instead of steel reinforcement because it has higher tensile strength than steel rods. Get your facts right

So you depend on google for all these trash you and your mates are vomiting here??
You are all confused.

What do you understand by ‘tensile strength’? Do you know what that means or you just crammed something but have no clue what you crammed.

Go and google the meaning of reinforcement bar(building rods)
What sizes of reinforcement bars are used for columns and beam of a building? Have you ever built a house before? What sort of house? Have you ever been to a construction site?

Compare the tensile strength of bamboo and 8mm or 10mm reinforcement bar.

Do that and come back….

By the way…bamboo tensile strength varies depending on location and area it grows. Bamboo in some swamp in Lagos will have different tensile strength to one found in some forest in Ondo. Do you agree?

Tensile strength…maximum load a material like bamboo or rods will carry before they give way and break.

Compare the tensile strengths and come back.

Btw bamboos have tensile strengths of 50-150MPa

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by tfelicityk(m): 6:50pm On Oct 20, 2023

May have carried out his research before the commencement of using bamboo sticks to build. #smiling

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Chuksyno(m): 6:53pm On Oct 20, 2023

Bamboo's greatest weakness is its poor durability in its natural state. The material attracts insects and fungus, which cause decay, and untreated bamboo structures don't last more than a few years.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Jewessgratitud3: 6:57pm On Oct 20, 2023

mariahAngel:

If it's an all wood bungalow, with no concrete, then there would've been nothing to worry about.
Concrete would definitely weigh heavy on the woods, causing the building to collapse eventually.

He must have done his calculations well before employing this method. So he probably knows how to balance out everything at the end for durability.

Person wey start journey don know where him dey go.

Research
The average compressive strength of bamboo is about 14,000 pounds per square inch (psi). Compare that to the compressive strength of concrete, which is about 2,500 psi, and you can see that bamboo is indeed a very strong material.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by KosiGee(m): 7:00pm On Oct 20, 2023

For all of you bamboo engineers here. Here are photos of reinforcement bars otherwise called building rods in Nigeria markets. Apart from other great qualities which they possess due to how they have been treated and produced, they have ribs…do you all understand the function of those spiral ribs?

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Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Jewessgratitud3: 7:02pm On Oct 20, 2023

StJasper:

Can you allow your kids live in such a building?

Na my idea?

By the way, see what research says and this goes to show you that the man has carried out his research before experimenting with it.

The average compressive strength of bamboo is about 14,000 pounds per square inch (psi). Compare that to the compressive strength of concrete, which is about 2,500 psi, and you can see that bamboo is indeed a very strong material.

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Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Bluffly: 7:03pm On Oct 20, 2023

I hope he treated the bamboos

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Jewessgratitud3: 7:03pm On Oct 20, 2023

intruder15:

Hope you are joking right?

The average compressive strength of bamboo is about 14,000 pounds per square inch (psi). Compare that to the compressive strength of concrete, which is about 2,500 psi, and you can see that bamboo is indeed a very strong material.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Jewessgratitud3: 7:04pm On Oct 20, 2023

McLizbae:
Pako is way safer than this!

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Yusufisraelj(m): 7:10pm On Oct 20, 2023

Jewessgratitud3:
Nice move. Bamboo sticks are very strong and durable. It will last. House na house. After all na pako oyinbo take dey build their house.

Ogbeni be calming down, this kind of careless statement is what makes unapproved processes looks valid.

Have you carried out test on bamboo to get the limits it can be used and the required mixture of concrete that goes with it? Where's the data to support such claim's?

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Jewessgratitud3: 7:12pm On Oct 20, 2023

Yusufisraelj:

Ogbeni be calming down, this kind of careless statement is what makes unapproved processes looks valid.

Have you carried out test on bamboo to get the limits it can be used and the required mixture of concrete that goes with it? Where's the data to support such claim's?

Now you need to take a chill pill. Do your research before attacking my comment.

Here's what research says

The average compressive strength of bamboo is about 14,000 pounds per square inch (psi). Compare that to the compressive strength of concrete, which is about 2,500 psi, and you can see that bamboo is indeed a very strong material.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Lucifyre: 7:16pm On Oct 20, 2023

Jewessgratitud3:

The average compressive strength of bamboo is about 14,000 pounds per square inch (psi). Compare that to the compressive strength of concrete, which is about 2,500 psi, and you can see that bamboo is indeed a very strong material.

Another ignorant take been peddled as fact, the hubris on this thread is outstanding. You've stated this crap like 3 times and its nonsense. Why are u comparing the strength of bamboo to concrete?Do u even know what concrete is? Is the bamboo replacing concrete? Isn't the bamboo part of reinforced concrete just as the steel rebar is? Why not compare both rebars instead of comparing one of the rebars to concrete without rebar or is the bamboo something else?
The irony of "Do Your Research", go educate urself man and thrash this opinion.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by id4sho(m): 7:18pm On Oct 20, 2023

HardBishop:

Yet they're still standing, trying many things

Foolish goat

Aturu awusa

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by descarado: 7:20pm On Oct 20, 2023

KosiGee:

You are one of those dumbos who swallow everything you read online hook, line and sinker.

Bamboos have good tensile strengths but can’t compare or replace iron rods and by iron rods, we are not just talking of steel rods. We are talking about building rods or rebars/ reinforcement bars. These have high flexural strength and can maintain integrity for many years unlike bamboos that gets brittle or vulnerable to termites when they gain access to the concrete.
You guys just consume nonsense online and try to vomit dodgy researches done by lazy people who don’t know the difference between column and beam.

As much as the Chinese and some south East Asian countries have used bamboos to build for years, they know it has its limitations and they can never use that to construct serious projects where load is important.

The Anambra man according to the video is building a two storey building using only bamboos. That’s madness.

During the olden days, they built one storey with bamboo, palm tree plank, palm kernel shell and and clay soil. We had one we use as tourist site cos the children of the owner relocated and built cement House.
That house was still standing strong until they razed it down. I think the grandchildren don't wanna be associated with it as people use that to describe them.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Yusufisraelj(m): 7:22pm On Oct 20, 2023

Jewessgratitud3:

Now you need to take a chill pill. Do your research before attacking my comment.

Here's what research says

The average compressive strength of bamboo is about 14,000 pounds per square inch (psi). Compare that to the compressive strength of concrete, which is about 2,500 psi, and you can see that bamboo is indeed a very strong material.

This where you're mixing things up, concrete is not the problem here but iron.

The reason iron rods is used in buildings is to aid support for concrete, it acts as the skeleton in your body that's what ensures buildings don't come crashing down.

My challenge is that he's replacing those iron rods without proper verifications on the ratio of concrete to bamboo that will give the required strength for the building to last.

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by 77up(m): 7:24pm On Oct 20, 2023

DodadaKoKigbe:
Nonsense. There's NO Anambra man that can EVER complain about the cost of building materials. EVERY single Anambra man is a BILLIONAIRE in dollars.

Do dada ko kigbe grin

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Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by georgeakins: 7:27pm On Oct 20, 2023

AfroBeatDiary:
The tension of those bamboo may not be as strong to iron but they will reinforce the concrete which will suffice for the structure. The man must be a structural engineer because you can't conviñce any one to try this if they person does not understand the science behind it.

Biaflans still live in the stone age.

They are the most uncivilised beings I have ever met

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by georgeakins: 7:28pm On Oct 20, 2023

Crenzywilliams:
I hate it when people start giving insights into things they know nothing about. FYI, bamboo have a higher tensile strength than iron rods and it is actually a very good replacement for it. It's very unconventional, agreed, but using bamboo does not affect the integrity of the structure, it actually is a very good alternative. That's coming from a material science engineer, that also took time to do the research before he made this comment.

Some biaflans still live in caves

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by georgeakins: 7:29pm On Oct 20, 2023

Nice2023:

They are innovative to the core.

Shame on u.

There is no place in ur state in kogi that can be compared with that area in Anambra state.

Biaflan are primitive beings

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by Jewessgratitud3: 7:30pm On Oct 20, 2023

Lucifyre:

Another ignorant take been peddled as fact, the hubris on this thread is outstanding. You've stated this crap like 3 times and its nonsense. Why are u comparing the strength of bamboo to concrete?Do u even know what concrete is? Is the bamboo replacing concrete? Isn't the bamboo part of reinforced concrete just as the steel rebar is? Why not compare both rebars instead of comparing one of the rebars to concrete without rebar or is the bamboo something else?
The irony of "Do Your Research", go educate urself man.

When you finish speaking in tongues @rebar rebar" let me know.

You go talk whether na me build house with bamboo abi me I be architect wen you dey tell me all this things.

Onye rebama

Re: Danger! Anambra Man Builds Two-storey Building With Bamboo, Says Iron Expensive by georgeakins: 7:30pm On Oct 20, 2023

anyination:

And everyone is so poor in your side..

Asiri

Most biaflans live in caves

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