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Cheap, easy building technique with humanitarian potential?

Posted in Science and society, tagged , on January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Back in the late 1940s, when Europe was starting to rebuild after the devastation of the wartime bombings, an Irish engineer developed a quick, cheap and easy building technique using just canvas and concrete — in essence, a concrete tent, but one that could be quite large. Can’t help wondering if this could prove useful [...]

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