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Construction material smackdown!

Relative Worth of Construction Materials

How do different construction materials compare and by what criteria should they be judged?

This is an ongoing debate with many factors to consider, but a very concise, fairly easy to follow, and thought-provoking matrix (don’t worry, no bar graphs!) is the ‘Relative Worth of Construction Materials’.

Now, I’d like to see this expressed even more elegantly. Are you listening, Edward Tufte?

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