Development of sustainable building products using bamboo and underutilized wood in Canada

现在，大量木材已正式纳入加拿大建筑规范，作为可接受的解决方案，在未来几年，高层木结构建筑对木材的需求将超过现有的行业供应能力。该项目旨在通过创造新一代工程轻型框架和大量木材产品来解决这个问题，这些产品补充和扩展了当前和较少使用的当地木材供应，如生长更快、更坚固、更坚韧的白杨和西铁杉。与森林树木50至80年的采收周期相比，竹子的采收周期为3至5年，并且形成了一种独特的材料，具有比木材更大的韧性，拉伸，弯曲强度和延展性，使其成为一种非常通用的建筑和结构建筑材料。需要克服的挑战包括将竹子与现有结构木材粘合剂粘合的困难，以及确保竹木混合建筑产品符合现有结构性能和严格的大型木材防火设计规范。竹子的高密度使其具有更高的导热性，但也具有较慢的炭化速率，这将影响混合建筑构件的设计和制造。我们正在与科学家、供应商、开发商、建筑和结构工程师合作，专门研究木材和竹子建筑，开发原型产品，在BC省当地生产，创造就业机会，并将新产品用于建设示范项目，以提高公众意识和推广，并持续监测材料耐久性和热效率等功能。该项目将有助于提高市场意识和需求，推动国内（即北美）的竹材种植，更多地利用较少使用的当地木材，并有助于巩固加拿大在从碳密集型混凝土和钢结构向创新的低碳木材结构过渡方面的世界领先地位。

Now that mass timber has been formally included in Canadian building codes as acceptable solutions, in coming years demand for lumber for tall wood buildings will outstrip existing industry supply capacity. This project aims to address this by creating a new generation of engineered light frame and mass timber products that supplement and extend the use of current and lesser-used local wood supplies such as Aspen and Western Hemlock with much faster growing, stronger and tougher bamboo timber. Bamboo has a 3 to 5 year harvest cycle compared with 50 to 80 years for forest trees and forms a unique class of materials with greater toughness, tensile, and flexural strength and ductility than wood, making it an extremely versatile architectural and structural building material. Challenges to overcome include difficulties bonding bamboo with existing structural wood adhesives, and ensuring wood-bamboo hybrid building products will conform to existing structural performance and stringent fire design codes for mass timber. Bamboo's higher density gives it greater thermal conductivity but also a slower charring rate which will influence the design and fabrication of hybrid building members. We are working with scientists, suppliers, developers, architectures, and structural engineers specialized in wood and bamboo buildings to develop prototype products, manufacture them locally in BC, creating employment opportunities, and use the new products in building demonstration projects that will allow for public awareness and promotion, and ongoing monitoring of functionality such as materials durability and thermal efficiency. The project will help promote market awareness and demand to drive domestic (i.e. North American) bamboo timber cultivation, greater utilization of lesser-used local woods, and help solidify Canada's position as a world leader in transitioning away from carbon-intensive concrete and steel construction to innovative low-carbon timber-based construction.