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...Other manufacturing companies imported slab, semi-finished flat chunks of steel, as well as rebar, rods used to reinforce concrete in construction projects....
...“Most of them got into difficulty early on with the civil engineering work, the site clearance and the concrete pouring. It doesn’t matter what you put on top if you don’t get the concrete right.”...
...While Rio de Janeiro has the Christ the Redeemer statue or Sugarloaf Mountain, São Paulo is better known for its serried ranks of concrete residential blocks....
...And most new apartments are sold unfinished, which means the owner takes possession of a bare concrete shell....
...In spite of this, the industry is seeking further economies of scale as it grapples with a downturn in public and private sector construction....
...“Just imagine a quiet neighbourhood and there is a 50-storey building going up in the middle,” says a former resident who moved out when construction began....
...The prefab model has various advantages over traditional “poured concrete” construction: it is cheaper and can be carried out even in the cold depths of the Russian winter....
...Construction on the Finnish plant began this week. Late last year France approved its own EPR project at an estimated cost of €3bn....
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