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A house built with cemesto panels in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee Defense Community, 1949. Cemesto is a sturdy, lightweight, waterproof and fire-resistant composite building material made from a core of sugarcane fiber insulating board, called Celotex, surfaced on both sides with asbestos cement .
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 ...
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 "Type T" houses were built during the 1950s and were upgraded in 1979. The houses have three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, living room and front porch. The design of the houses is in the shape of a "T" - hence the name. [1] The "Type 2" houses were also built during the 1950s. Several variations of the houses have been achieved by ...
A sorting plant was built at the site in 1963, where women and children separated the longer asbestos fibres, which were ten times more valuable by weight than the shorter fibres. [18] The mine was also affected by scurvy and tuberculosis epidemics. Those who became ill, possibly including asbestosis sufferers, remained on the site and many died.
The house, which was built in 1968, has been destroyed multiple times by rising waters, but it has always been rebuilt. An island known as "Just Room Enough Island" is one of the famous Thousand ...
PulteGroup was hit hard by the housing crisis as well; the company built over 45,000 homes in 2005, but just over 15,000 in 2011. During the same time period, its stock dropped from $46.81 per ...
Buildings and structures completed in 1950 (19 C, 35 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1951 (20 C, 19 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1952 (20 C, 34 P)