What material is the most popular in modern construction? What are its positive properties? History and technology.
The logic of the existence of modern cities suggests that any settlement lives and develops only when some construction always goes in it. This is not so clearly seen in the example of small cities, but on large settlements the tendency manifests itself very, very visibly.
And which of the most popular building materials today? Concrete. And what is noteworthy – no matter how he hawed, on business and idle, but they cannot do without him! Because even concrete in Nizhny Novgorod, this monument of ancient architecture and architecture is almost irreplaceable, what to say about the wrong ancient cities?
Why is this happening? But because there are no perfect building materials. Does not exist in nature. And it was not possible to create artificially either yet. And concrete, with all its shortcomings, has two advantages – strength and the ability to build from it quickly. And this is exactly what modern construction needs. So, concrete is a kind of compromise between the requirements of modernity and the memory of the past ..