Sanne is a Bamboo U Alumni and an architect from Amsterdam. Together with her team, she is working on building an entire bamboo industry in Uganda- from plantation, and harvesting to government support and building structures.

In This Episode We Discuss:

4:05 Sanne’s First Bamboo Building Project
6:16 Building With Sustainable Materials In Uganda
7:20 Establishing The Overall System For A Bamboo Project To Be Possible
8:06 The Clients And Organisations Wanting To Build With Bamboo In Uganda
10:47 Setting Up A Bamboo Supply Chain
12:32 INBAR And Bamboo Seedlings
13:37 Setting Up A Database For Bamboo Uganda
14:43 Bamboo Species Of Africa
16:00 How Does Growing Bamboo Influence Your Designs
18:31 Bamboo Species Influencing Design
20:55 Opening A Bamboo Factory
22:18 Bamboo At The Nyege Nyege Music Festival
22:45 Building a 9000 sqm Bamboo Structure Over The Old Taxi Park In Uganda
25:35 Training Local Carpenters
28:18 Designing Within Constraints
31:35 Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are
32:40 Bringing The Right People Together

Learn more about Sanne and her team’s work:
@bkvvarchitecten
@sanneeekel

Sanne is an alumni of both Bamboo U’s The Fundamentals Of Building Bamboo Online Course and our 11 Day Build and Design Course: https://www.bamboou.com/courses