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Bamboo has been used for construction throughout China's history. In Hong Kong you can see bamboo used in scaffolding in buildings as tall as 50 stories. Bamboo scaffolding showcases the material's strengths: bamboo is flexible, strong and cheaper than steel and it is one of the fastest-growing plants on the planet. “It has the potential to be the most affordable structural material on the planet,” says David Sands, founder of a company engineering bamboo products. “And the potential it has to cut our emissions is absolutely enormous.”
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