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[1] The Elevated Houses are significant as examples of Australian Government housing on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands with a plan form and design suited to local climatic conditions. The two houses are larger variations of standard "Type 2" houses and their siting to the far south of West Island, near the administrator's residence, indicates ...
From its plant in Columbus, Ohio (the former Curtiss-Wright factory), the corporation eventually constructed 2,498 Lustron homes between 1948 and 1950. [3] The houses sold for between $8,500 and $9,500, according to a March 1949 article in the Columbus Dispatch —about 25 percent less than comparable conventional housing.
This is a list of notable Lustron houses. A Lustron house is a home built using enameled metal. There were about 2500 prefabricated homes built in this manner. [1] [2] Numerous Lustron houses have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]
Almost 160,000 had been built in the UK by 1948 at a cost of close to £216 million. The largest single prefab estate in Britain [13] was at Belle Vale (South Liverpool), where more than 1,100 were built after World War 2. The estate was demolished in the 1960s amid much controversy as the prefabs were very popular with residents at the time.
Asbestos (/ æ s ˈ b ɛ s t ə s, æ z-,-t ɒ s / ass-BES-təs, az-, -toss) [1] is a group of naturally occurring, toxic, carcinogenic and fibrous silicate minerals.There are six types, all of which are composed of long and thin fibrous crystals, each fibre (particulate with length substantially greater than width) [2] being composed of many microscopic "fibrils" that can be released into ...
The Phoenix, designed by Laing and built by themselves as well as partners McAlpine and Henry Boot, [3] looked much like an AIROH with a central front door. It was a two-bedroom in-situ preform design with steel frame, asbestos clad walls and an innovative roof of tubular steel poles with steel panels attached.
School buildings completed in 1950 (1 C, 12 P) Sports venues completed in 1950 (108 P) T. ... Site of First Adobe Home, Lake County; St. Joseph's Health Centre, Sudbury;
Nearly 40,000 of these structures were built between 1946 and 1949 to house families. Asbestos cement , genericized as fibro , fibrolite (short for "fibrous (or fibre) cement sheet"; but different from the natural mineral fibrolite ), or AC sheet , is a composite building material consisting of cement and asbestos fibres pressed into thin rigid ...