For centuries, Filipinos have built and lived in bahay kubo made of bamboo. With the introduction of steel and lumber, bamboo was regarded as a "poor man's" building material, often sidelined for low-cost housing. Today, bamboo is slowly reclaiming its place in the construction of modern homes. By combining ancestral building wisdom with cutting-edge technologies, treated culms and engineered bamboo are emerging as premium, structurally superior…