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  2. Marston Mat - Wikipedia

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    RAF aircrew with one of their Bristol Beaufighters on a PSP airstrip at Biferno, Italy, August 1944. Marston Mat, more properly called pierced (or perforated) steel planking (PSP), is standardized, perforated steel matting material developed by the United States at the Waterways Experiment Station shortly before World War II, primarily for the rapid construction of temporary runways and ...

  3. Billancourt Studios - Wikipedia

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    A room of fifteen meters high under ceiling is traversed by modular metal walkways. Set designers Alexandre Trauner and Eugène Lourié, cinematographer Henri Alekan and unique technical know-how propel the studios to first place in Europe.

  4. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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    Prefabricated post-war home at Chiltern Open Air Museum - Universal House, Mark 3, steel frame clad with corrugated asbestos cement A 1950s metal UK prefab at the Rural Life Living Museum, Tilford, Surrey. San Sebastian Minor Basilica in Manila, completed in 1891, is the only prefabricated steel church in Asia. [2]

  5. Southport State High School Buildings - Wikipedia

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    The Hawksley prefabricated school buildings are excellent examples of their type and demonstrate variations of the standard layout configurations and support framing designs: Hawksley "type H plus additional 40ft" (1955), set on concrete piers and metal posts; and Hawksley "type F amended" (1957-8), incorporating open-web metal trusses.

  6. Prefabrication - Wikipedia

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    The quality of prefabricated housing units had increased to the point that they may not be distinguishable from traditionally built units to those that live in them. The technique is also used in office blocks, warehouses and factory buildings. Prefabricated steel and glass sections are widely used for the exterior of large buildings.

  7. Road surface - Wikipedia

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    A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway. In the past, gravel road surfaces, macadam , hoggin , cobblestone and granite setts were extensively used, but these have mostly been replaced by ...

  8. Nissen hut - Wikipedia

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    A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen .

  9. Cast-iron architecture - Wikipedia

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    On the continent, the 1804 Pont des Arts in Paris is an early and elegant use of cast iron for a major city river crossing (the metal work of the current bridge is a near identical copy built in 1984 due to structural decay). Another notable example is the elegant Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, cast by the Coalbrookdale foundry, and built in 1816 ...

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