Construction of earthquake resistant bamboo

Buildings made of bamboo has a resistance to earthquakes. However, the forms of local wisdom and intelligence is not widely adopted by the Indonesian people living in disaster prone areas.

“Building a bamboo, and withstand earthquakes, are also easy and cheap to make,” said Chairman of the Experts Council of Forestry and Environmental Observer Tatar Sunda (DPKLTS) Mubi Purwasasmita, Thursday (03/11) in the District Cisompet, Garuti regency, West Java.

In Garuti, DPKLTS with Medco Group gave four examples of buildings constructed from bamboo material to the public. The four buildings that form of housing units each measuring 6 x 6 meters, a schoolhouse, and a mosque.

Bamboo houses for responsible development in Cisompet P Bambang Nugroho said that the construction of earthquake-resistant bamboo because it is flexible. Flexibility We have to bolt, lock and glue. Flexibility is what makes the building is to adjust the shock of the earthquake.

The founder of the Medco Group, Arifin Panigoro, for example, evidence that the buildings are made of bamboo can withstand the earthquakes that are in the village of Naga customary in Neglasari, Sub Salawu, Tasikmalaya regency. Although the 7.3 Richter scale earthquake in September 2009, none of the traditional houses made of bamboo and straw-covered Kampung Naga damaged.

Elders DPKLTS hopes Solihin GP, ??four buildings in bamboo Cisompet be an example for society. Communities can mimic the construction of the building. Later, one of the buildings are used as examples in the hall Cisompet smart device equipped with information technology. This site is an information and training for the citizens of bamboo construction.

In addition withstand earthquakes, the cost of making bamboo construction is very cheap. Based on experience and DPKLTS Medco Foundation to build a bamboo house Cisompet, the construction cost of bamboo based only Rp 500,000 per square meter.

It costs only a third of the cost of building a house, in general, or Rp 1.5 million per square meter. “Nothing can rival the cost of building low-cost manufacturing bamboo construction of this,” Arifin said.

Bamboo is a source of building materials are widely available in Indonesia and can be upgraded. Of about 1,250 species of bamboo in the world, 140 species or 11 percent of which came from Indonesia.

At the time, and Medco DPKLTS Foundation also delivered more than 7500 plants

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