It turns bamboo into a viable building material.

它能将竹子加工成可用材料。

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

我已经在让手下木匠加班加点了，但是有些重要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.

可以变得更绿色。它们可以增加再生钢材使用，还可以在工地外工厂中 预制组件，大大减少对货运需求。但各种材料中，具有最让人兴奋环保特性却也最受忽视还是木材。

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，这在当时是一种新颖材料。

Recycled construction materials may not be for everyone.

回收材料可能并不适合所有人。

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

材料涨价，房屋价格也随之提高。

It became this kind of beautiful material of the building.

它成了美丽材料。

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

燃烧家庭废物，燃烧塑料，材料气味真很令人不快，这是冬天时候。

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.

为了实现这一目标，凯特谈到了使用当地材料，并思考人们出行方式——基本上使其成为一个可持续发展城市。

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

他们看到大部分周围都是混凝土这种坚硬材料。

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

人和动物可以用树木木材做材料。

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

他们任务一部分就是发展新改良材料和造技术。

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，如果一种材料成本增加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.

纸板可见于日常午餐盒、硬纸箱、甚至材料。

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

但是，其他材料不像木材那样具有明显却被忽视环保资质。

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打印机来制造材料。

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

他们必须让住处加固以防冻，或者造新房，但材料很缺乏。