It turns bamboo into a viable building material.

它能将竹子工成可用的建筑材料。

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

我已经在让手下的木匠班，但是有些重要的建筑材料还扣押在海关那儿呢。

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。它们可以增再生钢材的使用，还可以在工地外的工厂中 预制组件，大大减少对货运的需求。但各种建筑材料中，具有最让人兴奋的环保特性却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。

This one, however, is made of concrete, a novel construction material in those days.

然而，这栋房子是由混凝土制成的，这在当时是一种新颖的建筑材料。

Recycled construction materials may not be for everyone.

回收建筑材料可能并不适合所有人。

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

建筑材料涨，房屋随之提高。

It became this kind of beautiful material of the building.

它成美丽的建筑材料。

The smell of burning household waste, of burning plastic, construction materials is really quite unpleasant and this is the winter time.

燃烧的家庭废物，燃烧的塑料，建筑材料的气味真的很令人不快，这是冬天的时候。

To achieve this, Kate talked about using locally-sourced materials for building and thinking about how people travel around – basically making it a sustainable city.

为实现这一目标，凯特谈到使用当地的建筑材料，并思考人们的出行方式——基本上使其成为一个可持续发展的城市。

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。

People and animals can use the wood from trees for building materials.

人和动物可以用树木的木材做建筑材料。

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。

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.

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

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。

Yaghoob Farnam is a construction materials engineer at Drexel University in Philly.

雅各布·法南姆是费城德雷塞尔大学的建筑材料工程师。

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。

Scientists would use 3D printers to create the construction material.

科学家们将使用3D打印机来制造建筑材料。

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

他们必须让住处固以防冻，或者建造新房，但建筑材料很缺乏。