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The bamboo bridge wins an international award

2019-12-09 10:44:46

Villagers chatting at the “Kwan-yin Bridge” in Dujia Village, Xinglong Town, Yubei District

Villagers playing with a kid at the bridge

A better place for villagers to relax

Ingeniously designed with the softness of bamboo

The neat bamboo bridge bottom

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- In Dujia Village, Xinglong Town, Yubei District, there is a special bridge whose main structure is made of bamboo. The bridge is 21 meters long and 3 meters wide. It is composed of 716 bamboos. Its main body is arched and named “Kwan-yin Bridge”.

In the past, the village was blocked by a stream, so it was inconvenient for villagers to cross the stream. In 2017, Shao Changzhuan, a Doctor of the Department of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, led the team here to build such a bamboo bridge.

Now the villagers are happy because crossing the river is no longer dangerous.The bridge also becomes a center of the village, where people come to enjoy the cool in the summer. With the appearance of the bridge, a developer has contracted a plot of land next to the bridge to be built into a parent-child playground.

“In the general impression, people think that bamboo may be soft and its strength cannot keep up with it.” But Shao and his team have come to the conclusion after countless experiments that a section of short bamboo about 10 cm long can withstand 15 tons of pressure. “That is to say, if a truck is filled with soil and calculated by 55 tons, it can basically be supported by four sections of bamboo pillars.”

“Bamboo is actually a very good building material. After being treated, it is environmentally friendly, durable and pollution-free. It is similar to wood that people often use. Shao said that he would continue to promote the use of bamboo in the construction field, and even hope to make it an industry to drive farmers to increase income and become rich.”

In 2019, the “Kwan-yin Bridge” won the 2019 RICS China Annual Award by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), an international professional institution. (Translated by Luo Juan, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei