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Industrialised Building methods.

Industrialised Building means a high degree of prefabrication applied to domestic
or other construction so as to reduce site work to a minimum. This involves carefull planning and
a maximum of standardization.
The quantity of factory work on the building components is highly increased so as
to reduce the cost and improve the quality and speed of construction.
Large- panel construction is one of industrialised building methods which was
first applied in the USSR. It consists of using reinforced concrete panels one or two storeys
high, sometimes made of light- weight insulating concrete.

For large- panel timber walls which have been prefabricated for many years both

in Europe and America, the term is not used.
Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.
1. What is meant by “industrialised building “?
2. What does this method involve?
3.How can the cost of construction be reduced?
4. Where was large- panel construction applied first?
5. What does the method of large- panel construction consist of?
Exercise 2. Read and translate the following word combinations into Russian.
industrialised building methods; high degree of prefabrication; maximum of standardization; to
reduce site work; one or two storeys high; large- panel construction.
Exercise 3. Translate the following sentences.
1. A maximum of standardization is needed to reduce site work to a minimum. 2. The up-to-date
machinery is used on construction sites. 3. Large- panel construction was first applied in the
USSR. 4. A high degree of prefabrication is important for housing construction. 5.
Prefabricated rooms and flats can be assembled into houses.