- Author
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Dryden, H. L.
- Title
- Research on Building Materials and Structures for Use in Low-Cost Housing.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
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BMS 1
June 16, 1938
7 p.
- Keywords
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housing
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building materials
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structures
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costs
- Abstract
- Progress in every modern industry depends on technical research to improve old products and to develop new ones. The rapid development of faster and safer automobiles and airplanes is a direct consequence of reliance on research accompained by freedom from stifling tradition. Railway trains have undergone a striking metamorphosis within the last few years because of the application of the results of technical research on new materials and methods of construction. To many thoughtful persons it appears that progress in the building industry can come only by the same route; in fact that the only hope of meeting the insistent demands of society for satisfactory houses within reach of millions of wage earners is through new materials and methods of construction made possible by research. The housing agencies of the Government early recognized the need of research in answereing the many technical questions confronting them and through the Central Housing Committee, its subcommittees, and affiliated groups, recommended the initiation of a research program with special reference to those materials and methods suitable for use in low-cost housing. The Congress included the sum of $198,000 for such a program in the appropriation for the National Bureau of Standards for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937.