RE: pre-Engineered Building Manufacturers
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 4:38 pm
A short history of prefabs –building the post-war world
The Burt Committee (Interdepartmental Committee on House Construction) was a working party established in September 1942 by the wartime coalition government. The committee considered which methods and materials would be most cost-effective and efficient for providing houses after war damage in
the Blitz and the unfinished work of slum clearance had left many people homeless and living in insanitary conditions. The committee favoured prefabricated housing as a solution to the problems, and their
recommendations resulted in Emergency Factory Made Homes (EFMs), a provision of the Housing
(Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944.
Winston Churchill declared that the government would produce 500,000 prefabs. In the event £150 million was allocated to the programme and 156, 623 ‘prefabs’ were designed, produced and erected between 1946-9, across the UK. Some were built on bombsites, others on parks and open spaces and some still survive beyond their intended lifespan of 10-15 years.
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The Burt Committee (Interdepartmental Committee on House Construction) was a working party established in September 1942 by the wartime coalition government. The committee considered which methods and materials would be most cost-effective and efficient for providing houses after war damage in
the Blitz and the unfinished work of slum clearance had left many people homeless and living in insanitary conditions. The committee favoured prefabricated housing as a solution to the problems, and their
recommendations resulted in Emergency Factory Made Homes (EFMs), a provision of the Housing
(Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944.
Winston Churchill declared that the government would produce 500,000 prefabs. In the event £150 million was allocated to the programme and 156, 623 ‘prefabs’ were designed, produced and erected between 1946-9, across the UK. Some were built on bombsites, others on parks and open spaces and some still survive beyond their intended lifespan of 10-15 years.
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