In the present age of climate change due to high carbon sequestration throughout the world, the demands in the construction industries are the use of energy-efficient, green construction materials, sustainable design, and technology. the tensile strength to specific weight ratio of bamboo is quite higher than the steel and thus attracts engineers to consider bamboo as reinforcing the material in reinforced concrete structures. however, the ranges of variabilities in terms of engineering strength parameters and the low bond strength between bamboo and concrete needs attention for the effective use of bamboo as reinforcement. the suitable structural design methodology for bamboo reinforced concrete (brc) structural members is still inadequate before engineering design-office so that the engineering applications of brc may receive its position in the construction industry in regular practice. the present thesis covers a detailed experiment on varieties of bamboo for determining the engineering properties and behavior before its consideration in bamboo reinforced concrete structural members. to frame-out a general approach of design, detailed experiments are conducted on brc beams under flexure, columns under axial compression, and slabs subject to transverse loads. design equations, as are in practice in reinforced cement concrete are reframed, addressing the limit state of collapse to predict the capacity of brc members, and the same is experimentally evaluated. varieties of locally available bamboo species are collected and then chemically treated before obtaining their engineering properties. statistical validity is examined on obtained engineering properties of bamboo using minitab-17 software to arrive at acceptable values for consideration in design-approach. a variety of coating materials are used to increase the bond strength between bamboo and concrete. design bond strength for each case has been proposed to calculate the development length based on the bond-slip relationship as explored from the detail investigation and experiments. steel reinforced concrete members are also cast and tested for comparison. the chemical treatment, reinforcement orientations, and binding techniques are addressed in the experiments. the experimental results validate the design approach, which can effectively predict the safe load carrying capacity of brc structural members. a model house; designed and constructed with brc members is also demonstrated at the end as an example of energy-efficient and cost-effective housing.