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| Substantial Construction – Brand insists that a basic requirement for a building to ‘learn’, and to be rewarded with a long life, is that its core construction is strong; so that it will absorb changes. Here all the walls, internal as well as external, are solid; brick or breeze-block. Accordingly, the solidity of these bricks is not in question, since those who have chosen to add a further storey have not even had to reinforce their existing foundations! The price to be paid for the trendy ‘white’ brick finish is that, made in concrete (anecdotally, according to locals, because the three day week experienced by the Heath government had resulted in supplies of the clay ones drying up), the colour of these has now weathered to a pale grey. This means that matchin |
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