Lying within the City of Bath World Heritage site, the picture-postcard village of Combe Down is
home to what is thought to be the world's largest single use of foamed
concrete, with the estimated final volume approaching 600,000 cubic meters
and due for completion by December 2009. {785,000 cubic yards]
Click on this link to learn more about this multi-year project in southwest England.
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The concern is that the supports which were left during mining of the limestone were too small and too far apart to safely support the ceiling of the mine.
