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The faint of heart avoid brand new, high-tech architectural materials like the plague. No one knows for certain how well they will work, or for how long. And when materials or material assemblies fail, the consequences can be anything from mildly irritating to utterly catastrophic. Architects and owners tend to shy away from materials that haven’t been used in construction for a decade or so; new technology is tested in labs but is untested by time, and it’s typically expensive.
