Uso do bambu na construção civil: aplicações estruturais e arquitetônicas para um desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

Aiming at the high resource demand due to the expansion of the civil industry sector, as well as the need to seek sustainable alternatives for construction, the present work has as main objective to analyze existing studies in the literature regarding the properties of bamboo material, as well as its characteristics and several applications. Bamboo, in this context, presents itself as a low cost raw material, low production energy, excellent performance and stands out for being a light and resistant material - when compared to other construction materials. In addition, its prefabrication processes contribute to a cleaner and streamlined construction site, with time and resource optimization. Several tests with the material were analyzed and their results were correlated to the theoretical studies and the construction works that use this material. In addition, we sought to emphasize the qualities of the material regarding sustainability, renewableness, resistance and high species diversity. In Brazil bamboo is not yet widely used, but in countries such as China, Indonesia and Japan there are relevant works produced with the material. A barrier to the use of bamboo is the lack of specific rules for the material, but the recent trend is that more research on the material is developed, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge of the material, as well as the feasibility and application in works.