The use of concrete to build our domestic houses is nothing new. Indeed, budget permitting, concrete is often an obvious choice: as a construction material, it can offer strength, durability, robustness, thermal mass, and water tightness. It can span over large living areas; it can support heavy transfer loads (an essential requirement, given that the upstairs layout of a house will never align with its downstairs layout); and it can be the skeleton off which we support all manner of architectural and decorative claddings, linings, finishes, features, and other materials that turn a house into a home.
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