Description
During the last ten years, the Teaching and Research Center for Low Environmental Impact Materials and Technologies in Sustainable Construction (NUMATS) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) has been working on developing several solutions for green construction. The different research groups promoted solutions such as, the use of vegetable fibers/textiles as reinforcement of cementitious composites, the production of bio-based ashes for partial cement replacement, the use of recycling aggregates from construction and demolition, the development of earth-based mortar and the development of vegetable plant based concrete. More specifically, the research group bio-based concretes produced low carbon bio-concretes using plant based aggregates such as wood shavings, rice husk and bamboo particles. This paper aims at presenting the main experimental results of the bamboo bio-concretes development and characterization from 2016 to 2024. In addition to that, the life cycle assessment conducted on some bamboo bio-concretes was also presented. From the different topics studied in this review, the use of bamboo bio-concretes is an interesting solution for carbon sequestration and eco-friendly building construction.
