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Israeli Building System May
Enter Europe
NEGOTIATIONS are now under way with several European governments and private concerns for the setting up of factories to produce an industrialised building system de- veloped by Rastrom, Ltd., Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel.
Rastrom, a subsidiary of Arad Road and Quarries, Ltd.. have designed a system that uses solid concrete bear- ing walls. 16 cm thick, with one reinforcing steel net.
The walls contain conduit service channels for elec- trical installations inserted at the factory and preformed recesses for sanitary and other site-connected installations. The elements are joined without welding by casting re- inforced columns in matching hollows along the entire height of the floors.
Non loadbearing front walls are produced in sand- wich form with layers of concrete, styropor filling and exterior finish of granolite. The system uses 23 standard elements to produce flats in low or high rise blocks. Twelve elements comprise the walls, seven the ceiling slabs and four are for "miscellaneous" uses.
Major advantage claimed by Rastrom for their sys- tem is the low cost of setting up a manufacturing plant. They point out the Israel factory, with a capacity of 900 flats annually, cost US$500,000 to erect compared with the US$2 million average cost for a similar plant in Europe.
London Factory-made Homes Contract
A CONTRACT Worth £5.65 million has been signed between the London Borough of Haringey and Taylor Woodrow- Anglian, Ltd. for a housing project to provide more than 1.000 homes by industrialised building methods.
Focal point of the scheme is a six-storey block in the form of a Ziggurat (storeys stepped back to ensure pri- vacy) which enables the building to incorporate private roof terraces and "sitting_out" gardens for the tenants. An amenity precinct and 16 shops are approached from the courtyard at the rear of the U-shaped Ziggurat.
Other housing is provided by two 19-storey tower
More than 100 tons of specially designed Alcan extrusions make up the swirling canopy which is to top the French exhibit at Expo '67, Montreal. Snap-jointed together, they will create a reflective halo for the basic steel and concrete structure of the pavilion. Paris architect, Jean Faugeron and Montreal co-architect Andre Blouin designed the blades of the canopy which will be anodised, assembled and installed by Raymond Manufacturing of Montreal. Alcan are main contractors to the World Fair and have supplied most of the aluminium used in its construction.
blocks (17 storeys for occupation, on two-storey podia); nine maisonnette blocks of six-storey height, and 18 four- storey blocks of flats, all linked by a pedestrian access deck above car-parking facilities.
The layout provides for total segregation of vehicles and pedestrians-all roads, garaging and planted areas will be at ground level and pedestrian circulation will be at first floor level. A large elevated play space is provided on a deck near the shopping centre, and other playgrounds are at ground level.
For the construction of the homes, Taylor Woodrow- Anglian will use the Larssen and Nielsen system. Com- ponents of room size and one storey in height are manu- factured in off-site factories and delivered in a near finished state for assembly on site.
A district heating system will be used for the project. constant hot water for heating and domestic use being supplied to all homes from a central oil-fired boiler house.
New Suspension Bridge In Gothenburg
SWEDEN'S largest suspension bridge, the 900 metre six- lane Alvsborg Bridge across the Gota River in the western part of Gothenburg, was inaugurated in November.
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Model of the Haringey project
New Alvsborg Bridge
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