The phrase "a building unit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to construction, architecture, or real estate to refer to a single unit within a larger structure, such as an apartment or office space.
Example: "The new development consists of several residential buildings, each containing a building unit designed for modern living."
Alternatives: "a construction unit" or "a structural unit".
Posco Engineering & Construction, a building unit of the steel maker Posco, which withdrew its I.P.O. plans last year because of weak demand amid lingering economic uncertainty, is trying again to raise about 1 trillion won.
A building unit of the zeolite was also formed at an early stage of crystallization.
Nitrogen represents a building unit for amino acids, chlorophyll as well as DNA and RNA material [30].
X-shaped DNA (X-DNA) was designed as a building unit, and underwent ligation to form DNA hydrogels.
The construction of this deep architecture uses restricted Boltzmann machine as a building unit, and uses greedy layer-wise training for model construction.
An aniline trimer derivative possessing multiple furan groups (TFAT) is prepared and used as a building unit for preparation of self-healing anticorrosion coatings.
This paper presents a cellular building unit made from microstrand-shaped bacterial cellulose (BC microstrand) covered with mammalian cells.
Thus the pothook shape subunit we observed could be a common building unit of all the coronaviruses for the assembly of their RNPs.
These defects are generated when a tertiary building unit (TBU) is rotated 90° around the c-direction with respect to the neighbouring TBUs in the same layer.
Taking the tri-s-triazine as a basic building unit, three types of planar structures of the g-C3N4 quantum dots were designed.
In this application, the molybdophosphonate cluster {Mo5O15(O3PR)2}4− serves as a secondary building unit (SBU) with alkyl (CH2)n or aromatic –(C6H4 n– tethers providing one-dimensional structural expansion.
