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Band 3.5

some people think it id important to construct new buildings rather than wasting money on maintaing old ones.To what extend do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

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The issue of refurbishing old
buildings
 is widely debated, with some people claiming that they should
replace
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be replaced
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 with new ones.
However
, I personally do not entirely accept
this
, and I will explain why in
this
 essay.
Firstly
, constructing new
buildings
instead
 of repairing and maintaining old ones causes
wasting
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the waste of
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 numerous products and materials
such
 as chalk, sand, stone and wood which leads to consumerism and
this
 happening has a lot of disadvantages for
environment
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the environment
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.
For example
,
woods
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wood
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are
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is
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 one of the vital materials for all types of
buildings
. They can be used for doors, windows and parquet. If they
do
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are
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 not
repair
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repaired
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 and
reuse
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reused
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 again,
this
 overuse
would
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will
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 destroy forests and jungles which has
bad
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a bad
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 effect on the ecosystem.
Secondly
, it is a fact that any kind of construction is exorbitant and needs to expend
huge
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a huge
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 amount of money. Destroying the whole building and rebuilding it again needs more money than
refurbish
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refurbishing
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 it.
Thus
 it has no economic benefit.
Finally
, building is one of the time-consuming activities and you have to put a lot of energy and effort
for
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into
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 it. Admittedly, it is true that newly-built
buildings
 generally have better and more modern facilities or decoration, but it should
be consider
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be considered
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 that with correct
maintaining
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maintenance
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 and little repair old
building
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buildings
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 can have
that
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those
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 changes. In conclusion, I feel that
refurbishment
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the refurbishment
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 of run-down
building
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buildings
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 is essential, both for economic reasons and to support and protect the environment. It seems that new
buildings
 are highly unlikely to replace the old ones.
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    • Sentence 2 - Example
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