Sands David ClimateSmartConstruction May2022

RIZOME
Climate Smart Construction

We’re on a Mission to Sequester Carbon and
Develop Bamboo into a Primary Global Construction Material
Image Source: Sumitomo

Overview
PLANT BAMBOO. MAKE BUILDING MATERIALS.
REPEAT. SEQUESTER GIGATONS OF CO2.
Problem: Ecological Disaster

Solution: Regenerative Bamboo Building
The construction industry is a global ecological disaster.
Embodied carbon from construction accounts for 11% We believe that one of the largest revolutions in
of global CO2 emissions and 28% including lifecycle building materials in the coming years will be the
building operations. Cement contributes 7% and steel widespread adoption of high-tech engineered
up to 8% of global emissions. Wood requires huge land bamboo lumber. As this shift occurs, every new
areas and is harvested globally at unsustainable rates, building will support climate positive CO2
with 18.7 million acres of new deforestation each year. drawdown and provide regenerative local bamboo
Large-scale reforestation to sequester carbon is slow, economies in regions that need it the most.
has been hampered by expensive and inaccurate
verification, and is difficult to monetize in an inefficient
and opaque offset market.
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Ultra Renewable Material
• The new Pine

• Grows 15 times faster
• Harvest Each Bamboo Plant Every Year

• Each pole matures in 3-5 years
• Sustainably harvest 20-33% of poles or up
to a ton each year from each plant
• Plant it once and Harvest for 100 years
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A Lifetime of Bamboo
Grew up playing in a bamboo grove
Made towers and bridges
of bamboo as a scout
Studied bamboo as part of my
Chinese Brush Painting in college
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My Inspirations
Linda Garland
Simon Velez
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From Rockstar to Rock Solid
Structural Bamboo Experts

First Structural Certification for US
We’ve proven the structural
capabilities of engineered bamboo
poles. Now we are dimensionalizing
the material for broader market
applications.
Sammy Hagar House - Maui

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From Rockstar to Rock Solid
Hurricane and
Earthquake
Tested
Multiple Category 5
Hurricanes with
Winds up to 200mph
Multiple Earthquakes
Up to 6.9 on Richter
Scale
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Our Solution
Rizome Bamboo Products
Boards Veneers Panels LVL Strand

Up to 10’ Long 1/4 Inch Thick Multi Ply Custom Sized The Green OSB
Solid Asper Bamboo Solid Asper Bamboo Solid Asper Bamboo Solid Asper Bamboo Strands & wafers
S4S 4’ x 8’ 4‘x8‘ 4’ x 8’
Free & Clear Free & Clear Up to 1.5 “ thick Cut to Size or
Cut to Size boards
1/4 “ thick Custom thickness available based on customer
requirements
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Flexible Fiber
• We can use the fiber to make:

• Compressed building materials like
OSB and strand lumber
• Laminated building materials like
veneers, panels and lumber
• Biofuel through chips and pellets
• 3D printing filaments
• Paper and cardboard pulp
• Biochar
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Philippines: $159M by 2030
• By 2030 drive: $159M:

• $132M in products
• $ 26M in carbon credits
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Product: Building Materials
A CLIMATE SMART BAMBOO ALTERNATIVE TO WOOD,
STEEL, AND CONCRETE.
Bamboo engineered lumber has superior technical characteristics that can

complement or replace wood, steel, and concrete for most structural building
applications.
Engineered Bamboo Lumber

• 2.5x stronger than steel by weight
• Greater compressive strength than concrete
• More fire-resistant than wood: chars rather than melts to prevent
catastrophic collapse in high-rise buildings
• Regenerative: 10x carbon drawdown vs. trees, watershed restoration,
grows faster when harvested, 12x less land use than wood
Deﬁnitions
• CULM: A single bamboo pole. Our giant bamboo is typically over 25-30m
(80-100ft) tall and reaches 25 cm (10 in) in diameter, one of largest and
strongest in the world. A typical pole weighs over 100kg (220lb).
• CLUMP: A single bamboo plant, typically 40-50 culms with 10-15 mature
poles ready to harvest every year.
• BOARDS: 25-150mm x 7-15mm x 2.6-3.2m planed sections of bamboo
• VENEERS: 1/4” 4’x8’ panels
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Why Now?
IF BAMBOO IS SO SUPERIOR TO WOOD, WHY HASN’T IT
ALREADY BECOME A MAJOR BUILDING MATERIAL?
History
Bamboo has been a low-tech industry of $70bn in toothpicks, skewers, paper
pulp, chopsticks, cutting boards, and only recently flooring and veneers. While
there are huge areas of bamboo forest throughout SE Asia, China, Japan,
Central and South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly all species have
small diameter, so the product mix is limited. There has never been an
accessible supply of bamboo with the dimensions of culms necessary to make
slats large enough to service the global construction market.
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Why Now?
Price
Embodied Carbon
Existing bamboo 4x8’ panels cost up to $200/sheet
Read any architectural newsletter recently, and
retail. When bamboo reaches cost parity with wood,
low embodied carbon, along with mass timber, is
the world changes.
the new face of construction. Bamboo is the
Technology most climate smart structural scalable building
Bringing modern western lumber manufacturing material.
processes, adhesives, data collection, and automation Decreasing global timber supply
to bamboo.
Logging moratoriums around the world are
Regulation increasing timber prices and demand for
Wood Skyscrapers/Mass timber buildings are newly IBC alternative materials.
compliant since 2018 (up to 18 stories in 2021).
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Impact
RIZOME ADDRESSES All 17 OF THE UNITED NATIONS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS - SDG17
Economy
Bamboo processing facilitIes dramatically benefit local communities. Farmers can
generate additional revenue from their existing bamboo stands and have access to Ecology and Fire Resistance
stable fair employment in regions where people rely on wages far below global Giant bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth. Regular harvest increases its
poverty levels. The indigenous peoples and other farmers can be paid to plant growth. Bamboo also does not die in the grassfires that have devastated other
bamboo. reforestation attempts with native hardwoods in the area.
We only plant noninvasive clumping bamboo in areas that were previously
deforested so that we do not compete with native species or food crops. We are
also increasing biodiversity by interplanting with native hardwood trees in
locations where seasonal grassfires will not destroy the young trees.
Water
Water is a major issue worldwide. Bamboo helps restore the water cycle. The
unique rhizome mat of the plant reduces catastrophic flooding and erosion, and
also recharges aquifers to mitigate drought.
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Impact
Social
We have already begun to see the early social impact of a
thriving bamboo economy.
Gender equality
Unlike the lumber industry which is both machine-heavy and
male-centric, the lightweight of bamboo enables women to
participate in the bamboo economy, as well as the
community’s decisions to favor women for the nursery
portion of the program.
Indigenous Populations
We provided matching funding to help our indigenous partners
secure a USAID grant for the reforestation of thousands of
acres of their tribal lands with bamboo and native trees. That
grant is now being implemented.
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RIZOME: TOP 60 FINALIST
FOR MILESTONE AWARDS
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Saving the Climate
CONVERT 12% OF GLOBAL CONSTRUCTION
TO BAMBOO BASED BUILDING MATERIALS
ANNUAL IMPACT – ADDRESS 1/3 OF GLOBAL CO2
IN DRAWDOWN AND AVOIDED EMISSIONS
WWW.RIZOMEBAMBOO.COM
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RIZOME

Climate Smart Construction

Image Source: Sumitomo

Problem: Ecological Disaster

• The new Pine

• Harvest Each Bamboo Plant Every Year

Structural Bamboo Experts

Sammy Hagar House - Maui

Boards Veneers Panels LVL Strand

• We can use the fiber to make:

• By 2030 drive: $159M:

Bamboo engineered lumber has superior technical characteristics that can

Engineered Bamboo Lumber

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