World’s first bamboo bridge for trucks built in China
The world’s first bamboo bridge that can withstand the weight of Trucks has been built in a village in the central Chinese province of Hunan, the local press reported.
This is a bridge made from superhard and moisture-proof modern materials fabricated from pressed natural bamboo, not the traditional, folk-crafted improvised structure made from the round trunks of bamboo butted together.
The ten-metres-long bridge over a shallow river was assembled within a week through the efforts of eight workers without the use of any building machinery. Trucks have already driven via the bridge, which had been designed by Professor Yan Xiao, an architect.
Yan said the bridge had been devised so that it could withstand an eight-tonne load. The service length of the bridge constructed from the ecologically pure materials will be about 20 years. It is at least half as cheap as the reinforced-concrete analogues.
