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2. Quonset hut - Wikipedia

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   The original design was a 16-by-36-foot (4.9 m × 11.0 m) structure framed with steel members with an 8-foot (2.4 m) radius. The most common design created a standard size of 20-by-48-foot (6.1 m × 14.6 m) with a 16-foot (4.9 m) radius [ dubious – discuss ] , allowing 960 square feet (89 m 2 ) of usable floor space with optional 4 feet (1.2 ...

3. List of Lustron houses - Wikipedia

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   A Lustron house is a home built using enameled metal. There were about 2500 prefabricated homes ... IA 52402 currently for sale; ... 15 Blue Barns Rd., Rexford, NY ...

4. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   A steel framing system was devised consisting of vertical steel studs and roof-ceiling trusses to which all interior and exterior panels were attached. The concept of prefabricated housing was well established by firms such as The Aladdin Company, Gordon-Van Tine Company, Montgomery Ward, and Sears in the early 1900s.

5. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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   Prefabricated post-war home at Chiltern Open Air Museum - Universal House, Mark 3, steel frame clad with corrugated asbestos cement A 1950s metal UK prefab at the Rural Life Living Museum, Tilford, Surrey. San Sebastian Minor Basilica in Manila, completed in 1891, is the only prefabricated steel church in Asia. [2]

6. Nissen hut - Wikipedia

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   A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen .

7. Self-framing metal buildings - Wikipedia

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   Self-framing metal buildings are a form of pre-engineered building which utilizes roll formed roof and wall panel diaphragms as significant parts of the structural supporting system. Additional structural elements may include mill or cold-formed elements to stiffen the diaphragm perimeters, transfer forces between diaphragms and provide ...