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Flaws in this design soon surfaced when the military began converting Quonset huts to uses other than troop housing and equipment storage. The huts also worked well as showers, latrines, dental offices, bakeries and isolation wards but needed special structural layouts to accommodate these additional uses and related equipment. The original structure was replaced with a design that employed vertical side walls supporting an arched roof; the new setup provided much more usable space. Modern Quonset huts offer 100 percent usable space by not utilizing beams or trusses in their design. The arched steel construction of a Quonset hut makes it one of the strongest structures in architecture; these huts can withstand the worst of Mother Nature.