Training on high-end structural bamboo construction

Workers during the training on high-end structural bamboo construction underway at the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre.

Dimapur: To take bamboo construction to a new level competency, training on high-end structural bamboo construction is underway at the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre.  The Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency and Zynorique Consultant, Nagaland have jointly organised the training.

Richard Belho, official architect consultant of NBDA, is monitoring the entire training exercise. “This bold initiative involves training of selected workers in all the parameters of a conventional construction exercise, right from the making of scaled miniature models, selection of specific bamboo materials and complete assembly of the actual structure within a specified period of time,” stated a press release issued by Dr. Tolto Metha, Team Member, NBM-IT, NBDA.

With the success of this gruelling training module, the Agency is hopeful that it will be ready with a complete team of high-end bamboo construction workers, who can be assigned to undertake ground breaking construction tasks anywhere in the country.

With a growing global awareness on the versatility and efficiency of bamboo as a building material, the NBDA is definitely on a fast-forward mode to explore ways and means in this area, thereby generating further employment with finer work output.