1973 HUD Operation BREAKTHROUGH Housing Systems Boeing Architecture Report

by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Design and Development of Housing Systems for Operation BREAKTHROUGH is a substantial 1973 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development technical report prepared for HUD by The Boeing Company, Community Development Organization. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, the 260-page report documents Operation BREAKTHROUGH, the federal program created to develop and test industrialized approaches to American housing production. The report profiles 22 housing-system producers, including General Electric, Alcoa, Boise Cascade, Hercules, Republic Steel, TRW Systems Group, Levitt Technology, National Homes, and others. Subjects include modular and prefabricated housing, structural systems, factory production, steel and precast-concrete construction, mechanical and electrical systems, labor and production capacity, transportation, construction economics, building codes, and prototype development. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, architectural and floor plans, construction diagrams, technical tables, company-system profiles, and comparative matrices. Measures approximately 11.7 × 8.9 × 0.6 inches. Condition: Former institutional-library copy in a plain light-colored institutional-style binding or wrapper with applied title labels. Exterior shows general age toning, soiling and discoloration, rubbing, edge and corner wear, small stains and abrasions, localized creasing, adhesive residue, and wear/lifting to the applied labels. Multiple former İTÜ A

• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
• Year: 1973
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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