Remarkable New Material Helps India's Housing
Received Thursday, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 20. The invention of a remarkable new buildng material has helped! India to make plans for 1,000,000 prefabrieated houses for her workers in the next ten years. When the scheme is fully operating, houses will go up all over the Dominion at the rate of 100,000 yearly. The new material is aerated mortar of light cement, which can be made from materials easily available in India after being "cured" under high steam pressure in a container. Called autoclave, the cement is said to become such excellent insulation that ?a wall four inches thick will keep the heat dn or out as effeetively as a 14 inch brick cavity wall.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1948, Page 7
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