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It is sometimes used in combination with modern materials like reinforced concrete or steel for building houses and bridges.
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As a pre-fabricated structure it also took less time to construct and was cheaper than a conventional steel and concrete building, says Liddell.
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As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
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They still bar building material such as concrete, steel and pipes, as well as industrial equipment.
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The Company also involves in industrial installation, steel structure, the production of concrete, building decoration, landscape construction, railway construction and electric power businesses, among others.
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Powerline solutions also provide a simple way to help extend the home network into rooms such as basements, attics, garages and back houses that may have dead spots or a limited wireless signal due to building materials, such as concrete and steel.
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The AP1000's shield building consists of a concrete layer, sandwiched between thick steel plates.
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Modern architecture is notable above all for the use of steel and concrete, and to a lesser extent wood, as building materials.
ECONOMIST: Building design
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Such composites of steel and concrete have been used in the world's tallest building--the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia--and its most experimental, Frank Gehry's Jimi Hendrix Museum in Seattle.
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The two local authorities have agreed to share the costs of building and maintaining the steel-beamed bridge and its reinforced concrete deck.
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Conversion seems to be a big problem: in the case of the Sungshan complex, which collapsed into itself, the superintendent of the residential part of the building says a bank that rented out the first two floors had stripped the steel columns of concrete reinforcement during renovations earlier this year.
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