Top 5 innovations in building materials
CNBC talking to Dr. Sascha Peters
CNBC 2013

In an interview with CNBC, Dr. Sascha Peters provides information about a few years and smart building materials of the future and shows the TOP 5, which lie between mushroom-related foams, translucent wood and retroreflective concrete.
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