Bamboo Homes in Puna

[Kelena]

PS Catherine -- would love to see the website, but your link is not working. Do you oversee or faciliate construction projects?

[Kapohocat]

You are right - the server is down! - yes I do facilitate projects....I will email you with info.....

-Cat

Catherine Dumond
Blue Water Project Management
http://kmastudios.125mb.com/bluewaterpm/...rhome.html
808 217-7578
"We help make building your dream home a reality"

[Les C]

I went to see that bamboo house during the open house. It was interesting but it was very rough, it seems like it would look perfect in Indonesia (no, I haven't been there). It didn't appear to have any plumbing or electricity. The exterior walls were made of a plywood with a woven mat interior face and split and flattened cane on the outside. There was no glass in the large, low windows. The "kitchen" appeared to be composed of a few tables along one wall of the living room with a campstove. There was some bamboo (solid or laminate) flooring. It seemed to be a neat place to spend a vacation, but not for full-time living. I suppose that plumbing and electrical could be integrated, but the structure seemed to be very non-standard. So, I don't know if putting in them in would cost more than a regular home.

Les

[Carey]

Gen, the Shipman Low Impact village is still very much in the pre-lim area. Shipman had an imformative meeting on their 5-50 year plans that they have been working on. The 5 year was on taking a small snippet of Shipman land to construct townhouses on makai of Puna Honwanji. So any thing else in in the future plans.
Aloha, Carey

[Kelena]

With regard to the electrical and plumbing issues discussed above, the maker of the bamboo house said: "Our custom bamboo houses are prefabricated in Vietnam and shipped by container to the house site. The homebuyer prepares the foundation and
the house is then assembled.

The Plantation Hale on the Hamakua Coast was assembled in a week. Then
the owner installs the final roofing material, and completes the house
with local contractors and materials: doors, windows, decking, final
floor, electrical, plumbing, cabinets and furniture.

At the time of the Open House, the owner had not yet installed the
electrical and plumbing, doors, windows, or final floors. The owner was waiting for the utility to extend the power lines to the house from the road.

We estimate these owner supplied costs on our website [Glen's note -- about $14,000 if you use a contractor], but how the
owner finishes the house can vary widely. For the Plantation on the
Hamakua Coast, the cost estimates are shown here:
http://www.bambootechnologies.com/homes/...500mat.htm "

[Les C]

No wonder, then, that the Hamakua house looked like it was plucked out of SE Asia and plopped in to place on the BI. Because it was! I suppose that showing the home at this stage served the kit home people better than showing what the owner did to finish it out.

Les

[rbonplaza]

This string began before I joined the Web, but there is another string I started last month as well if anyone is interested in an alternative "kit" home. My first building, our shop, is reaching completetion and I am very pleased with the aesthetics and the green aspect of using the bamboo as a renewable structural element.

[Kelena]

They're both nice strings. This was is in "Building in Puna" so I will tack on to this one.

Has anyone thought how catchment might work these houses? Can you affix any roof you wish to them? Wonder how that might alter the aesthetics.

[rbonplaza]

The BT buidings come with roof panels as part of the structure. You can use any type of roofing material you choose. We're building the house on top of the concrete catchment.

[mella l]

http://www.mandalahomes.net/mandala/display.cgi

Bali homes for Noel, you might check here. I couldn't find the business that did the Bali Home in Leilani.



mella l