[?]Less Aluminium Con
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[?]Less Aluminium Con tion Now Available
CLESS, aluminium King id buildings, manufactured Lustralia under licence by steel, and distributed by ok Constructions Ltd., of 3resby, will be available i-New Guinea by the end rear. buildings are suitable for lies, overseers’ cottages, garages, industrial , or, with the necessary
interior linings and fixings, for more pretentious hemes.
All walls, partitions and the roof are aluminium: they depend for strength on their deep corrugations and may be put together on any solid foundation with little more in the way of tools but a spanner.
They can be add d to, modified, or taken down completely and re erected somewhere else. It takes about 30 man-hours to put up a building of 600 square feet.
Standard equipment includes aluminium doors and push-out shutters of the same material. But other type windows and doors can be adapted to the construction.
It is likely, however, that Kingstrand’s real contribution to Islands building lies in the provision
rand house in Costa Rica showing how conventional windows can be used.
of labour houses and plantation buildings rather than larger homes.
Features of the buildings are that they do not need maintenance —an important item in the tropics —and their extreme portability.
Complete units are packed in a flat case and the whole outfit costs from 25 to 30 per cent, less in freight charges than a conven tional building of the same size.
They can be conveniently carried by air—a vital consideration in places like P-NG where air is frequently the only means of transportation.
Erection costs are also a great deal less than for other construc tion.
It is expected that the first Kingstrand buildings will be in use in P-NG before Xmas; they will be available in other Pacific islands a little later.