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The houses were first built in southeast Vancouver in the early 1960s to serve newly-arrived immigrants from Europe. [3] However, the mass production of the Vancouver special is primarily attributed to the South Asian community after a wave of immigration in the 1960s and 1970s prompted many new immigrants to settle in the area and preside over ...
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 ...
The building, designed designed by Robertson and Marks in association with John Reid and Sons in 1927, was built in two phases. The first section of the building was completed in 1928-29 and the second in 1934–35. [1] The James Hardie company occupied the building until March 2002.
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)
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 ...
Werfel was exposed to asbestos while pulling down fences and renovating two homes between 1990 and 2000, and was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2017. James Hardie's products no longer contain asbestos, but Werfel's lawyer claimed the company should have done more to alert the public to the existence of asbestos in its old products, which ...
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s; 2030s; 2040s; 2050s; Pages in category "2000s music videos" The following 19 pages are in this category, out ...