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Industrialised housing at Rowen

Erection costs were only 15 per cent of total con- struction cost. In traditional methods, field expenses run from 35 to 50 per cent of entire cost.

Construction costs totalled about US$10.50 per square foot. The entire development was completed within a year from start of construction.

The French architects have formed a joint ven- ture with two Chicago firms, the Engineers Colla- borative and the W.W. O'Neil Construction Com- pany, to develop buildings in the United States with methods evolved from the Rouen project. The Chicago-based joint venture, known as Component Building Systems, Ltd., plans a 450-unit urban renewal housing project there.

Journal of architectural research

The Royal Institute of British Architects has published the first issue of a new journal which has the broad aim of raising the standards and widen- ing the scope of architectural teaching. Called Architectural Research and Teaching, the journal will appear three or four times a year. It will pub- lish the results of research and education of speci- fic relevance to architecture, providing a forum for research workers and teachers to discuss their experiences in this field.

Strategies for Architectural Research, in the first issue, discusses the problem of bringing re- search and practice closer to each other and sug- gests how this could be done. The issue also in- cludes papers from University College, London on a teaching experiment in architectural education theory and on room classification in complex buildings, from Newcastle upon Tyne University on heat islands' in cities (based on a study of Tyneside); from the Welsh School of Architecture on the assessment of students' designs, and from Cambridge University on the use of analogue and conceptual models in urban studies.

Moving promenade at Tokyo airport

The first moving promenade to go into service at a Japanese airport has been installed at Tokyo international airport. It is 157 metres long and moves at 40 metres per minute, carrying 10,000 pas- sengers per hour.

Three such promenades, called Autolines, are being installed at the airport by Hitachi.

Far East BUILDER, August 1970