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IMO bamboo can't be a bigger thing than wood simply because:

- bamboo cultivation came from not-much-developed countries, so not much good for us and not much easy to develop for them;

- bamboo duration, even with not so cheap treatments, is far less than the wood;

- bamboo fire resistance is very low, even with not so cheap treatments;

There is a trend in the western for bamboo simply because we consume more wood than natural regeneration and we need cheaper alternatives but this trend is really limited to consumer stuff, not structural/real architecture one as many do in some Asian and south-American countries...