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Affordable Housing & Technology Aron Polcsik Affordable Housing & Technology Aron Polcsik

A Traditional Transformation: The Modern Method of Bamboo Construction

While bamboo has always symbolized resilience, traditional bamboo homes often fail to withstand the very disasters they are meant to endure. Families spend years repairing fragile huts, only to see them damaged again by floods and storms, losing time, resources, and the chance for a secure future. For Gita Devi, that changed when she moved into her new home. Listen as she shares her journey.

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Affordable Housing & Technology Aron Polcsik Affordable Housing & Technology Aron Polcsik

Building Stability: Reshmi’s Journey and Nepal’s Bamboo Revolution

The monsoon rains came without mercy, flooding the floors of Reshmi’s bamboo hut. The fragile roof sagged under the downpour, water dripping onto the mud walls as she and her two children huddled in a corner. The jungle loomed just beyond their door, and with it came a constant threat as snakes, insects, and scorpions often found their way inside. This was not just her reality; it was the reality of millions of families across Nepal’s rural plains.

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Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann

Transforming Lives in Nepal: Safe Homes and Empowered Communities

Where would you sleep, live, and raise your kids without a safe place to call home? Adequate housing is recognized as a human right. Yet, in Nepal, nearly half of the population lives in substandard housing conditions, hindering their opportunities for social and economic advancement. Like many in her country, 29-year-old Pramila, a devoted mother of two, intimately understands the impact of this challenge.

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Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann

Webinar: Making Bamboo Mainstream

With its research and testing center, the Bamboo Academy and its own construction projects in the Philippines, Nepal and other Asian countries, the BASE Bahay Foundation, founded by the Hilti Foundation in 2014, aims to make bamboo a standard building material of the future – dedicated to the needs in construction of low-income families.

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Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann

Tackling the Global Housing Crisis with Bamboo

By 2030, it is predicted that 3 billion people worldwide will be living in substandard housing. Affecting their education, health and livelihood, this is one of the reasons why underprivileged families remain in the so-called poverty trap. To help alleviate this situation, the Hilti Foundation, together with the BASE Bahay Foundation, collaborate for affordable technology solutions to improve housing and the lives of low-income families.

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Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann

Scaling Safe Bamboo Construction in the Philippines and Nepal

The Hilti Foundation and Habitat for Humanity are working together to scale Cement Bamboo Frame Fechnology in Nepal and the Philippines. This innovative building method was developed by Base Bahay Foundation, an organization founded by the Hilti Foundation. The homes built using this technology are constructed with specially treated bamboo and cement plaster that makes them disaster-resilient and sustainable.

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Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann Affordable Housing & Technology Fritz Hanselmann

Innovative Bamboo Building Technology now in Nepal

Habitat for Humanity, a longtime partner organization of the Hilti Foundation, has started to build safe and disaster-resilient homes in Nepal for families in need. Since its inception in 1997, bamboo has been the environmentally friendly and local building material of choice for Habitat Nepal. But the current project is the first in the country to use the Hilti Foundation’s innovative CBFT.

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