Bubble material - any idea?

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hhgygy@gmail.com - 04 May 2009 10:27 GMT

Hi native speakers, I need your help once again.

Do you have an idea what "bubble material" might mean in the following
context.

(It is a business letter in which a real estate investment project is
described)

[i]The cost (one-time budget of XX mn EUR) for bubble material could
be considered as stewardship cost.[/i]

I believe this is written by a non-native from Belgium or Holland.

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James Hogg - 04 May 2009 10:43 GMT

>Hi native speakers, I need your help once again.
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>I believe this is written by a non-native from Belgium or Holland.

Could it be this kind of insulation?
http://www.energyattic.com/bubble_wrap.php

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hhgygy - 04 May 2009 10:46 GMT

> On Mon, 4 May 2009 02:27:31 -0700 (PDT), "hhg...@gmail.com"
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> James

No I don't think it has anything to do with bubble wrap

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hhgygy - 04 May 2009 10:49 GMT

> > On Mon, 4 May 2009 02:27:31 -0700 (PDT), "hhg...@gmail.com"
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> No I don't think it has anything to do with bubble wrap

Or maybe you're right: they are transferring an entire computer centre

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Prai Jei - 04 May 2009 10:45 GMT

hhgygy@gmail.com set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

> Hi native speakers, I need your help once again.
>
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> I believe this is written by a non-native from Belgium or Holland.

Most likely bubble-wrap. The real estate connection is probably that so much
bubble-wrap gets used to wrap people's possessions when moving house that
it needs to be itemised separately in the customers' accounts.

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Mark Brader - 04 May 2009 14:13 GMT

> Do you have an idea what "bubble material" might mean in the following
> context.
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> I believe this is written by a non-native from Belgium or Holland.

It makes no sense to me. Perhaps more context would be useful.

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Peter Duncanson (BrE) - 04 May 2009 15:33 GMT

>> Do you have an idea what "bubble material" might mean in the following
>> context.
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>It makes no sense to me. Perhaps more context would be useful.

Agreed.

In the context of buildings, real estate, "bubble material" might refer
to building insulation material. For example:
http://newstarpack.en.made-in-china.com/product/fMsQgkWoXJIF/China-Building-Insu
lation-Material.html

The product consists of two layers of aluminum foil with plastic
bubble laminated between the aluminum foil.

It costs almost 1 EUR per square metre.
XX mn EUR would buy about XX x 0.38 square miles of this material.

What puzzles me is why an investor would be interested in such a detail
of a building's construction. Perhaps "stewardship costs" receive
favourable tax treatment.

This is guesswork and may be totally wrong.

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Bubble material - any idea?