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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/bamboo_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Making Bamboo a Common Building Material' data-article-id='1678'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13458'>For thousands of years bamboo has been used in many different ways -- from food to medicine to clothing and, in small ways, as a building material.</span> <span data-start-time='13458' data-end-time='20313'>However, bamboo is not often used as a building material in the developed world.</span> <span data-start-time='20313' data-end-time='26813'>It is not made according to officially set measurements, or standards.</span> <span data-start-time='26813' data-end-time='29583'>It simply grows in the ground.</span> <span data-start-time='29583' data-end-time='38333'>A professor at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania is trying to change that.</span> <span data-start-time='38333' data-end-time='43438'>The professor and his students are testing the strength of bamboo.</span> <span data-start-time='43438' data-end-time='53542'>They are testing its radial load, or how much pressure or weight it can take before breaking.</span> <span data-start-time='53542' data-end-time='55667'>That pressure was too much.</span> <span data-start-time='55667' data-end-time='60646'>Kent Harries is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.</span> <span data-start-time='60646' data-end-time='68146'>Harries says that testing methods for bamboo need to be the same for all.</span> <span data-start-time='68146' data-end-time='71104'>They need to be standardized.</span> <span data-start-time='71104' data-end-time='82625'>Building codes everywhere require strict standardization of tests for all materials, such as timber or concrete.</span> <span data-start-time='82625' data-end-time='87208'>But tests for bamboo have not been standardized.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/bamboo_img.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=6610 data-hint-location='20313' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/what_does_standard_mean.m4a'>What does standard mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='a fixed official unit of measurement'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/a_particular_way_of_thinking.m4a'><span>a particular way of thinking</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/as_effective_as_possible.m4a'><span>as effective as possible</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/to_change.m4a'><span>to change</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/a_fixed_official_unit_of_measurement.m4a'><span>a fixed official unit of measurement</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=6611 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/what_has_bamboo_not_been_used_for.m4a'>What has bamboo NOT been used for?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='computers'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/computers.m4a'><span>computers</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/medicine.m4a'><span>medicine</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/food.m4a'><span>food</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/clothing.m4a'><span>clothing</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=6612 data-hint-location='29583' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/researchers_would_like_to_use__blank__as_a_building_material.m4a'>Researchers would like to use <span class='blank'>bamboo</span> as a building material.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='bamboo'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/bamboo.m4a'><span>bamboo</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/wood.m4a'><span>wood</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/metal.m4a'><span>metal</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1180/concrete.m4a'><span>concrete</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button 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