Abstract
We developed an ecological-environmental friendly-building board made of bamboo fiber and portland cement and have manufactured it in Indonesia since 1992. One of the advantages in utilizing bamboo as a reinforcement fiber to the building board is to increase the resiliency of it. In addition, another advantage is that because the bamboo has high regeneration ability while it is deforested, we are not destroying the natural environment in South East Asia and, therefore, we are not inhibiting the original reduction efficiency of carbon dioxide. In this report, we will introduce the manufacturing method of it using Indonesian bamboo which has thicker wall than Japanese one and contains much cement hardening inhibitor, along with an evaluation result of its long-term durability on the basis of physical properties test applied to the “bamboo fiber reinforced cement board” which had been installed for 15 years without any coating to exposed external wall of our factory warehouse in Indonesia.
