§ Mr. Fatchettasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those types of pre-cast reinforced concrete and timber framed dwellings which have been subject to structural analysis at the request of his Department.
§ Mr. GowThe Building Research Establishment has investigated the structural condition of the following types of prefabricated reinforced concrete dwelling designed before 1960:
- Airey
- Ayrshire
- Blackburn-Orlit
- Boot
- Boswell
- Butterley
- Cornish Unit
- Dorran
- Dyke
- Gregory
- Hamish Cross
- Lindsay
- Minniel
- Myton
- Newland
- Orlit
- Parkinson
- Reema Hollow Panel
- Schindler-Hawkesley SGS
- Stent
- Stonecrete
- Stour
- Tarran
- Teebeam
- Underdown
- Unitroy
- Unity
- Waller
- Wates
- Wessex
- Whitson-Fairhurst
- Winget
- Woolaway
Last autumn the BRE was asked to put in hand a study of the systems used in the 140,000 dwellings built in large reinforced concrete panels in the 1960s and 1970s.
No study of any type of timber-framed house designed before 1960 has been commissioned, but the BRE has examined houses of the Spooner type in Leeds after a house of that type suffered wind damage to its brick cladding. In 1981–83, the BRE studied the use of timber-framed methods in new housing as part of its continuing work on changes in design and construction methods. A number of points arising from the study are the subject of further work by the BRE.