This book describes the distribution of bamboo forest and bamboo species for construction, the types and characteristics of both engineered and natural full-culm bamboo materials for construction, the development history and research status of different forms of bamboo architecture. We go on to describe standards, relevant international organizations, research institutions and production and processing enterprises and typical cases. Starting from six aspects, this book systematically describes modern bamboo building development, analyzes the opportunities and challenges faced by the bamboo construction industry and provides guidance for the development of the bamboo construction industry in China. Particularly in Chapter 6, more than 70 examples constructed mostly since 2014 are selected to provide a detailed overview of the use of bamboo as decorative and structural materials. In order to fully explore the potential of bamboo in engineering applications, the authors introduce the use of bamboo construction for transportation facilities (bridges, highway landscape fences and bus stations), landscape, water pipelines and urban municipal tunnels. The authors hope readers are inspired by these most vivid cases and experience the charm of modern Chinese bamboo architecture. 

Mrs. K. W. Liuis the Coordinator of Global Bamboo Construction Programme at the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR). She was born in 1981 in Sichuan, China. She graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University with master degree in Structural Engineering and is now a Ph.D candidate of Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University. Since 2008, she has been working on promoting bamboo construction around the world. She managed around 20 international bamboo construction projects in Asia, America, Africa and Europe. Mrs. Liu is managing the INBAR Construction Task Force, comprising more than 30 bamboo construction experts from around 20 countries. As the Convener of Working Group 12 on Structural Use of Bamboo within the Timber Structures Technical Committee of International Organization for Standardization (ISO TC165 WG12), she is working on the development and revision of 5 international standards of bamb