Yep, and all thanks to one of the least known and potentially greatest building material known to man: alkalai-activated aluminosilicate cement concrete.
Strong, very long lasting, chloride rsistant, environmentally friendly, fast setting, dimensionally stable geopolymers should be available everywhere, like down at your local Builder's Emporium. But, I bet it's not.
This is one technology that just can't seem to make it into the commercial world. Why not? Because of building codes.
In a nutshell what is the issue with the codes?
Yeah. Interesting that when the construction industry of Chile fell to an annual growth of 0.1%, the sales of cement increased 20%. Who is doing this construction? It is outside Gummint records. Extralegal construction and extralegal property ownership and business fills in the gap, and it is a huge gap when the national legal system is not expanded to meet the actual demand. Building codes, land use zoning in the way? Go outside, that's how the third world does it. At the same time they are actually well to do, they are impoverished because most of the people cannot use their extralegal property as capital. We're getting that way in the USA these days.