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no-fines, a. (n.) (nəʊˈfaɪnz) [f. no a. + pl. of fine n. (fine a. B).] Applied to concrete made from an aggregate composed of lumps larger than about 9 mm. (and smaller than about 18 mm.), which results in increased porosity and better thermal insulation. Also as n.1946 A. F. Boyd Rep. Tests No-Fine...
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Wimpey no-fines house
"No-fines" refers to the type of concrete used - concrete with no fine aggregates. Construction
No-fines houses were built with a ten-inch (254mm) concrete shell cast in situ.
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Rowanfield
It consists primarily of a social housing estate of Wimpey no-fines houses and low-rise flats, built around 1953, with Rowanfield School and a playing disadvantages with the no-fines construction.
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no
▪ I. no, a. (nəʊ) Forms: α. 2–6 (9) na, (4 nai), 8–9 naa, nae, etc.; 6, 9 nea, 7 neay, 9 neah, nee(a, ney(e, ne, etc. β. 4–6 noo, 5, 7, noe, 3– no. [Reduced form of nān, nōn none a., originally used only before consonants.] No occurs in a considerable number of common phrases as no bones, no end, by...
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Prefabs in the United Kingdom
The rare Mk1 version had thick solid no-fines clinker concrete walls, built in the period 1919 to 1928. Their method used "no-fines" concrete, the composition of which used no-fine aggregates.
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Scottish Special Housing Association
SSHA had a large Direct Labour Organisation (DLO) which helped develop a no-fines concrete building technique which was used to build thousands of houses
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See also
Housing and Town Planning Act 1919
Pre-fab and no-fines house - solutions to the housing crisis following World War II
Public housing
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Friedrich Zollinger
He served as city architect in Merseburg, and developed the "Zollinger roof" (a timber lamella roofing system of a gridshell type), and the no-fines concreting
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Northern Ireland Housing Trust
Many used non-traditional prefab building techniques, like the concrete Orlit and No-fines and the steel-framed Easi-Form.
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George Wimpey
Wimpey was pre-eminent in the use of no-fines concrete construction (concrete made without sand) in high and low rise housing.
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Gamesley
The second half of the Gamesley estate was built a couple of years later by George Wimpey using the Wimpey no-fines house building method.
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Hesters Way
History
Much of the area was originally built as a Wimpey no-fines council area in the 1950s and 1960s as part of a national initiative to increase housing
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Whitefriars Housing Group
This demolition included several blocks of Wimpey no-fines constructed flats built in the 1950s in the Wood End area, including rows of garages damaged
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Orchard Park Estate
funding for improvements to the housing stock – the main activity was to be energy efficiency improvements to the 1,195 low rise houses of the Wimpey no-fines The 'Wimpey no-fines' houses in the Thorpes, Danes and Courts were to receive cladding.
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