{"id":2560,"date":"2014-06-03T02:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T02:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hebel.arch.ethz.ch\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2014-06-03T02:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T02:58:58","slug":"bamboo-a-viable-alternative-to-steel-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/bamboo-a-viable-alternative-to-steel-reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo: A Viable Alternative to Steel Reinforcement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebel.arch.ethz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-11-at-10.55.56-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2561\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-11 at 10.55.56 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hebel.arch.ethz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-11-at-10.55.56-AM-537x130.png\" width=\"537\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Architectural Blog archdaily reported recently on the ongoing research of CoReSing&#8217;s bamboo composite materials for the building industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Developing countries have the highest demand for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/reinforced-concrete-2\/\">steel-reinforced concrete<\/a>, but often do not have the means to produce the steel to meet that demand.\u00a0 Rather than put themselves at the mercy of a global market dominated by developed countries, Singapore\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurecities.ethz.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Future Cities Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0suggests an alternative to this manufactured rarity:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/bamboo\/\">bamboo<\/a>.\u00a0 Abundant, sustainable, and extremely resilient, bamboo has potential in the future to become an ideal replacement in places where steel cannot easily be produced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/513736\/bamboo-a-viable-alternative-to-steel-reinforcement\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architectural Blog archdaily reported recently on the ongoing research of CoReSing&#8217;s bamboo composite materials for the building industry. &#8220;Developing countries have the highest demand for\u00a0steel-reinforced concrete, but often do not have the means to produce the steel to meet that demand.\u00a0 Rather than put themselves at the mercy of a global market dominated by developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8IIze-Fi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}