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## [Structural Efficiency: current buildings implement 25 times the optimal amount of material](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/structural-efficiency-current-buildings-implement-25-times-the-optimal-amount-of-material/2136)

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**Author:** [@quisco](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/quisco)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 20, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/structural-efficiency-current-buildings-implement-25-times-the-optimal-amount-of-material/2136 "2020-07-20T18:20:46Z")

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A recently published research paper demonstrates how current building structures hardly achieve a 4% structural efficiency, in other words they use 25 times more material than the minimum theoretically required. Existin…