reinforced concrete

If you are fleeing from a tsunami and no such havens are available, try to find a sturdy, reinforced concrete building.

Irma had destroyed the main cottage but they rebuilt with steel beams and reinforced concrete, and the endless views of the Caribbean, especially with a cocktail at sunset from their infinity pool, were as stunning as ever.

In the fields: numerous small forts of reinforced concrete, which commanded all the roads into Lille.

They are about 10 feet high and are built of reinforced concrete, with huge cast-iron blocks upon their upstream faces.

These were formed of walls of reinforced concrete five feet thick, with loopholes through which machine-guns could fire.

Others again have iron bars run through the mass--reinforced concrete.

These viaducts consist of 50-foot reinforced concrete arch spans and piers, with here and there a 60-foot span.