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Top 5 Advantages of Using Steel as a Building Material

Ironman just might be the coolest character ever, but iron does not bring about similar desirable effects when it is used as a building material. For decades, people thought that iron was the answer to all their construction problems. This would have worked up until someone in Chicago went looking beyond the quintessential construction materials and used steel to build the very first skyscrapers.

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