To well understand the carbon emission of bamboo houses
this paper presents a life-cycle carbon emission assessment on a two-story bamboo house built at Nanjing Forestry University. Emission-reduction strategies for different carbon emission phases were proposed. Moreover
the differences in carbon emission from typical bamboo
timber
and steel houses with identical dimensions were compared. The results showed that the operation phases emitted the most carbon in the life cycle of the bamboo house
accounting for 89.8% of the total. The carbon storage in the engineered bamboo products accounted for 8.8% of the total carbon emission. Bamboo and timber houses with various structural systems exhibited similar net carbon emissions in their life cycles. Due to high energy consumption and low efficiency in thermal insulation of steel
the carbon emissions of steel structures are 89.9% higher than the average carbon emissions of three types of bamboo or wood structures.
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