What’s the most underrated material in the modern world?
How about CONCRETE?
Often dismissed as boring, ugly & inert.
Concrete is actually surprising, dynamic & incredibly complex.
Here is an old (V LONG) thread recycled from the other place, with a few reasons why concrete MATTERS so much 🪨
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How about CONCRETE?
Often dismissed as boring, ugly & inert.
Concrete is actually surprising, dynamic & incredibly complex.
Here is an old (V LONG) thread recycled from the other place, with a few reasons why concrete MATTERS so much 🪨
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“…literally “grown together,” / real, substantial, irreversible. You pour it by day, when you return the next it is changed, as are you.”
http://www.ucityreview.com/5_Weaver_Scott.html#concrete
Every minute of every day, construction firms around the world pour out the equivalent of more than 200,000 bathtubs of concrete.
Every minute.
Every year we pour enough concrete to cover the entire landmass of England.
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Indeed China produced more cement in three years alone (2018-2020) than the US did in EVERY year since the first Portland cement plant opened in 1865.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chapman_Mercer
The Romans (he says) re-created the world, with roads, bridge, aqueducts, buildings of all kinds and sizes -- in a word, with concrete!
Concrete, maker of worlds.