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    Everything You Need To Know About Homeville Industrialised – Metal Framed Houses.

    Everything You Need To Know about the Metal Framed Homeville Industrialised Houses The Homeville Industrialised house, also known simply as Homeville, represents a specific type…

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    The Aluminaire Metal Framed Aluminium Skyscraper & Panel House USA 1

    The Aluminaire Metal Framed Aluminium Skyscraper & Panel House USA

    The Aluminaire House is a three-story house designed as a case study by architects A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey in April 1931. Made of donated materials and built in ten…

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    Skarne LPS (Large Panel System) Dwellings

    SKARNE IDENTIFICATION Constructed as bungalows and 2 and 3 storey terraced houses and flats.The roof was of flat roof covered with a layer of asphalt.The…

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    Wates PRC Precast Reinforced Concrete House

    Everything you need to know about the Wates PRC House.
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    Edinburgh City Council – Interactive Map of Non-Standard Construction House Locations

    This maps shows the location of all Non-Standard / Non-traditional Housing Stock that is owned by Edinburgh City Council as of 2016. The map also…

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    The Structural Condition of Pre 1960s – PRC House Types

    Original BRE Report Publication Date – June 1984 In the early 1980’s, the Building Research Establishment (BRE) carried out a series of structural evaluations on…

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    Taunton Deane District Council Non-Traditional Housing Stock Map

    This map was created from data supplied by Taunton Deane District council, dated July 2017. It depicts all currently owned Non-Standard housing stock …
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    The Legendary 1940’s Arcon Temporary Bungalow

    Arcon MkV temporary prefabricated houses were produced only as bungalows. They have shallow pitch gable roofs covered with profiled asbestos cement sh…
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    Riley Steel Framed House

    The Riley house is a metal framed system of dwellings, first constructed in the mid-1940s by Riley Constructional Systems, a trading name of Cawood, W…
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    What Exactly is No Fines Concrete & Why Use it To Build Houses?

    No-fines concrete (NFC), is an open formed cellular concrete, but unlike standard concrete, no fines (fine aggregates) or sand, is added to the mix. R…
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    Epping Forest Council – Non-Standard Construction Housing Stock Map

    Looking for Non-Traditional Housing in Epping Forest? We've researched Epping Forest Councils' non-traditional housing stock and transferred the data …
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    Airey Duo-Slab House

    The Duo-Slab system of house building incorporates clinker aggregate concrete blocks and cast-in-situ concrete columns. It was originally developed in…
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