It turns bamboo into a viable building material.

它能将竹子加工成可用的建筑材料。

The man was collecting building materials when the first floor collapsed underneath him.

这名男子正捡拾建筑材料时，然下方一楼开始倒塌。

Well, I'm having my carpenters work full time, but some of the important building materials are being delayed at the customs.

我已经手下的木匠加班加点了，但是有些重要的建筑材料还海关那儿呢。

Buildings can become greener. They can use more recycled steel and can be prefabricated in off-site factories, greatly reducing lorry journeys. But no other building material has environmental credentials as exciting and overlooked as wood.

建筑可以变得更绿色。它们可以增加再生钢材的使用，还可以工地外的工厂中 预制组件，大大减少对货运的需求。但各种建筑材料中，具有最人兴奋的环保特性却也最受忽视的还是木材。

Adobe means a building material makes of earth and straw.

土坯是一种由泥土和稻草制成的建筑材料。

In fact, 20% of the building's material came from green sources.

事实上，其 20% 的建筑材料来自绿色能源。

When building materials costs more, the price of houses increases.

建筑材料涨价，房屋价格也随之提高。

So if the government suddenly tried to make all of these investments at once, it would quickly discover that it doesn't have the people or the building materials to do the work.

所以如果政府试图然一下子做所有这些投资，它很快就会发现没有人手或建筑材料来做这些工作。

That's right. A lot of building materials could be found there.

没错，很多建筑材料都可以那里找到。

They saw that concrete, hard building material, surrounded most of the buildings.

他们看到大部分建筑周围都是混凝土这种坚硬的建筑材料。

It sounds wonderful, Beth! In this programme, we'll be hearing how one of the world's oldest building materials, wood, is being used in new ways to build a greener future.

听起来很棒，贝丝！本节目中，我们将了解世界上古老的建筑材料木材如何以新的方式被用于建设更绿色的未来。

At a normal time, if the cost of a building material were to increase by 75 percent people would be coming unglued, but look what it is.

正常情况下，如果一种建筑材料的成本增加75%，人们就会反感，但看看这是什么。

I am studying for my exams on building materials.

我正准备建材考试。

It's part of their mission to develop new and improved building materials and construction techniques.

他们任务的一部分就是发展新的改良的建筑材料和建造技术。

Paperboard is seen daily as box lunch containers, cardboard boxes, and even building materials.

纸板可见于日常的午餐盒、硬纸箱、甚至建筑材料。

But no other building material has environmental credentials as exciting and overlooked as wood.

但是，其他建筑材料不像木材那样具有明显却被忽视的环保资质。

Phones transmit at higher levels indoors due to building materials, in rural areas due to greater distance to the network antennas, and when moving at high speeds, like in a car, due to the frequent handover between network antennas.

原因于，建筑物本身建材影响，使手机室内需要更高电平，偏远地区因距离天线遥远而耗电，车子快速行驶时，耗电原因则是不断转换基地台服务区所致。

And one of those minerals, calcium carbonate, happens to be a very useful building material.

其中一种矿物，碳酸钙，恰好是一种非常有用的建筑材料。

They must winterproof their shelters, or build new ones, but building materials are scarce.

他们必须住处加固以防冻，或者建造新房，但建筑材料很缺乏。

The demand for building materials was far greater than could be supplied.

对建筑材料的可供应数量远远跟不上需求。