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  2. Dom-Ino House - Wikipedia

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    Dom-Ino House (French: Maison Dom-Ino) is an open floor plan modular structure designed by the pioneering architect Le Corbusier in 1914–1915. [1] [2] This design became the foundation for most of his architecture for the next ten years.

  3. Concrete frame - Wikipedia

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    The most used material on this planet, concrete has been utilized since Egyptian and Roman times to create buildings like the Pantheon. Because of its flexibility when freshly mixed and its durability when hardened, concrete and reinforced concrete frame structures are used in the construction of skyscrapers, roads, bridges, and dams. [1]

  4. Kreuzbau (Hamburg) - Wikipedia

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    Structurally, the Kreuzbau building is a skeleton building made of precast concrete elements, built on a foundation without a full basement and finished with a flat roof. After setting up the construction site, the basement and foundation were built using conventional construction methods: A boiler room basement was excavated and removed under ...

  5. Prefabrication - Wikipedia

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    Prefabrication of modular wall elements allows building of complex thermal insulation, window frame components, etc. on an assembly line, which tends to improve quality over on-site construction of each individual wall or frame. Wood construction in particular benefits from the improved quality.

  6. Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme - Wikipedia

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    The structural integrity of CLASP buildings are strong and robust, the design being based on; strong concrete foundations, metal framing supports and concrete cladding give the building a unlimited lifetime timeframe (with small maintenance carried out). It is these design fundamentals of CLASP that can allow buildings to last over a hundred years.

  7. BuilderComs is one Marine’s simple but effective construction ...

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    BuilderComs is a veteran-owned company. “When life's on the line or you're trying to fix a house, you need a solution that would get the job done that's simple enough to put out there ...

  8. Detroit ridding itself of concrete skeletons, 100 decaying ...

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    DETROIT (AP) — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on The post Detroit ridding itself of concrete skeletons, 100 decaying remnants of white ...

  9. Airey house - Wikipedia

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    Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete columns reinforced with tubing recycled from the canvas tilt frames of military trucks. A series of shiplap style concrete panels, tied back to the columns, form the external envelope. [1]