Scaffolding offers a safer and more comfortable work arrangement than leaning over edges, stretching overhead, and working from ladders. It is used in new construction, alteration, routine maintenance, renovation, painting, repairing, and removal activities. It presents an essential part in construction especially building operations at height. It is indispensable for different processes in a building project (R. Hence, this study aimed at developing a conceptual road map to use the material as an alternative construction material after identifying the factors that affect the applicability and adaptability of bamboos utilization as a scaffolding material.Ī scaffold is a temporary structure used to support people, materials, and systems under construction and maintenance. Despite the abundant bamboo population in Ethiopia, such resources remained untapped and limited to utilizing small-scale houses, fences, some ordinary furniture, and household utensils. In addition, in most of these developing tropical nations, the absence of government regularization, a legal framework for the trade, and skilled human resources for bamboo scaffolding have opened doors to frequent fatal accidents and rampant failure of structures under construction (Ede et al., 2018). Nevertheless, some countries have utilized such material as for scaffolding its application is limited due to the absence of codification and standardizations (Amede et al., 2021 Gatóo et al., 2014).
Because of its lightweight, great flexibility, speediness, and cost-effectiveness, bamboo has been used as a scaffolding material and small-scale construction in some regions (Bambhava et al., 2013 Fang et al., 2004). On the contrary, using environmentally friendly and sustainable building materials promotes the local conservation of declining timber resources.īamboo grows in the tropical rain forests of African and Asian countries, with abundant vegetation (Gatóo et al., 2014). This demand creates a considerable gap between demand and supply, threatening Ethiopia’s remaining meager forest resources. In addition, the cost of timber products is overpriced and difficult to afford. As a result, timber stock is fast-dwindling, and there is an increasing difficulty in getting timber. Most of these construction activities involve the Eucalyptus tree, a non-renewable natural resource, as a scaffolding and formwork material. In recent periods, Ethiopian construction industry undertakings are being carried out by government and private firms that consume large quantities of non-renewable resources (Durdyev & Ismail, 2012). On the Brightside, every single respondent stated unequivocally that bamboo-made formwork meets a low-cost requirement. Besides that, it is expected that the bamboo content will fall short of technical requirements. Furthermore, one of the challenges in creating bamboo formwork is a lack of complementary joinery techniques. The investigation revealed that the use of bamboo has a cost and time savings advantage, while an increase in trash at acute and intermittent areas was one of the challenges. Finally, a scoring model was employed as a quantitative analysis protocol to calculate the weight of factors (safety, procedure and implementation, time, and cost) through expert opinions. Following that, four major categories for SWOT analysis were chosen to examine the Ethiopian construction industry’s stance on the use of bamboo as a scaffolding material.
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The paper also used a series of protocols at first, several documents were selected based on criteria to provide an overview of bamboo-based construction systems. Following the identification of important applications influencing parameters via literature analysis, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to identify significant factors. The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that influence bamboo’s structural suitability as a temporary material and to create a conceptual map for using it as an alternative structural material.
Nonetheless, Ethiopia is known for the high population of bamboo vegetation such utilization of the material remained untapped. From several countries trend bamboo has been used as a scaffolding material in building projects.
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