Vietnam Defies Engineering Laws: Build a Motorway over the Sea Using 10 Million Bamboo Canes to Make a Flood Mattress · Global Voices

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On the north coast of Java, Indonesia is building a toll highway with an almost improbable concept. Beneath the embankment lies not only steel and concrete, but also a layered bamboo "mattress" to prevent the ground from subsiding. The project is the Semarang–Demak Highway. A section is already open on land, but the most striking part is still under construction because it runs over the sea and is intended to act as a dike against "rob," the tid…