February 19th, 2010
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As more & more people become aware of the environmental issues facing our planet, they have started to look at eco-friendly alternatives.
In this post, a designer, Joshua Foss, walks you through the process of building an eco-kitchen. Part of the process was selecting eco-friendly materials – and guess what he (and his client) chose? Yip, you guessed – strand woven bamboo boards.
Here is a teaser:
The rest can be found here:
Designing an eco-friendly kitchen
Joshua Foss’ web site – Thrive Design Studio
January 29th, 2010
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As furniture designers come more and more to grips with the need to look at sustainable design, we are seeing the use of bamboo plyboards mushrooming. Why? They are an obvious choice:-
- The boards are available in standard sizes – reducing the need to laminate planks together first. Great for production lines too.
- They are structurally stable – no wrestling with & bracing the planks to keep them in place.
- They are so easy to mill to your desired shape.
- Paint, varnish, stain, oil or wax – no problem.
The more we see, the more excited we become at the possibilities. Have a look at what one company is doing – they have released a whole range of furniture based on bamboo plyboards:
December 14th, 2009
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The possibilities available to the furniture designer, cabinet maker or DIY enthusiast using architectural bamboo boards are limited only to the imagination. Have a look at what Greenington have managed to come up with & be inspired …
Quoted from their web site:
Greenington Fine Bamboo Furniture offers a full line of unique, high quality bamboo furniture for the bedroom, living room, dining room and office including bamboo tables, bamboo chairs, bamboo benches, complete bamboo bedroom sets (bed, nightstands, and dressers). Greenington also offers bamboo wine cabinets, bamboo stools and much more.
Have a look at their bamboo furniture gallery, we think it’s really great …
October 29th, 2009
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One of the big challenges we experience regarding our Eco-Logic Bamboo products, is that other products are often marketed as “Green” when in fact the products are not green. The industry term for this is called “greenwashing“. So how do you KNOW whether a product is REALLY green?
» Read more: Why does FSC Certification matter?
October 15th, 2009
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INBAR performed a study to look at the feasibility of manufacturing a prefabricated house using bamboo panels. The study looks at some important considerations;
- Physical and mechanical properties
- Sound insulation properties
- Thermal transmission properties
- Fire resistance properties
- Cost analysis
We’ve interpreted aspects of the study to represent South African conditions and requirements in the post. Have a look, we think that the results merit serious consideration of bamboo panels for prefabricated housing projects. » Read more: Study on the manufacture of bamboo panel components for a prefabricated house
September 22nd, 2009
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There have been criticisms that bamboo flooring isn’t as hard as claimed, that after a short time the floor is dented and scratched and looks awful. What say we?
Some of these criticisms are well founded – suppliers advertise their flooring being as hard as Maple flooring, or harder than Oak flooring, trying to sell bamboo flooring based on it’s hardness alone (there are tons of other reasons to buy bamboo flooring). So what are the facts about the hardness of bamboo flooring?
» Read more: Is Bamboo flooring really hard?
September 17th, 2009
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Laminated Solid Bamboo - Click-Lock with pre-installed underlay
Click Lock systems were initially popularised with laminate flooring systems. Their big sell was that they reduced the cost and increased the simplicity of an installation. A number of designs have been patented, but the most common tend to be UniClick and Valinge. When Engineered flooring started becoming popular, the obvious choice for installation was to use a click lock system.
» Read more: Tongue & Groove or Click Lock?
August 19th, 2009
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The phone rang – it was a client who had been the first hotel to install a Strand Woven Bamboo floor in the Western Cape. They had wanted to go green as was the international trend, so had decided to take the plunge and installed an Eco-Logic Strand Woven bamboo floor in their lobby. It had been three months and they were very happy with the floor, what could this be all about?
» Read more: Water Damage – Hotel
August 11th, 2009
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According to Niel Poland (MD of Mullican Wood), we could be seeing a shortage of hard woods as early as January 2010. He says the US hardwood harvests have declined by 50% in the last 10 years.
Here is a copy of the audio interview.
