Engineering for next generations: building with bamboo

Today, the most important duty for Human Being is leaving a safety environment for future generations without depleting natural resources. Housing is a primary need: it makes us safe and comfortable. Nevertheless cities can not gowth forever. Rehabilitation and soustainable buildings are securing the future. The study of new materials and their resistance is one of the most passionate faces of Building Engineering. To achieve soustainable buildings using that materials is an insurance for of small and medium enterprises of the construction sector. The universities have the challenge of transferring knowledge to society. In this case the School of Building of the University of Granada tries to promote vocation for STEM studies between girls of Secondary participating in the program: I want to be an [Building] Engineer showing them the existence of sustainable materials, their handling, characterization and use on a day-to-day basis. Finally it was made a summer camp were the girls students participate in workshops using one of the most sustainable material for building engineering: Bamboo.