{"id":14202,"date":"2026-02-11T13:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/?p=14202"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:49:04","slug":"building-tomorrow-with-bamboo-professor-francesca-parotti-interviewed-for-la-repubblica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/2026\/02\/11\/building-tomorrow-with-bamboo-professor-francesca-parotti-interviewed-for-la-repubblica\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Tomorrow with Bamboo: Professor Francesca Parotti Interviewed for La Repubblica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Collage-maker-project-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Collage-maker-project-1-1.png 600w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Collage-maker-project-1-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Engineering Professor Francesca Parotti was featured in a recent issue of La Repubblica&#8217;s Affari e Finanza magazine in an article about using bamboo, &#8220;nature&#8217;s green steel,&#8221; in construction. Professor Parotti, who has taught the course <a href=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/blog\/course\/cee274\">Sustainability in Civil and Environmental Systems<\/a> at Syracuse Florence for 12 years, has become a point of reference for this building materials in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article was published in response to the fact that the Institution of Structural Engineers has recently published the first comprehensive structural engineering guide for bamboo. &#8220;Bamboo is much more durable than wood,&#8221; Parotti explains in the interview. It&#8217;s also fast-growing and eco-friendly. &#8220;I&#8217;m convinced it&#8217;s the future of construction, though there are still some problems to resolve.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering Professor Francesca Parotti was featured in a recent issue of La Repubblica&#8217;s Affari e Finanza magazine in an article about using bamboo, &#8220;nature&#8217;s green steel,&#8221; in construction. Professor Parotti, who has taught the course Sustainability in Civil and Environmental Systems at Syracuse Florence for 12 years, has become a point of reference for this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":14203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14206,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions\/14206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}