28/10/2017
BQFH Introduction to Video File 2 Flexible Housing Central Module Design Principles and Er****on Sequence
The contribution features that furthered the design
(1) 1970…. I was the first the youngest assistant Clerk of Works in the up to be employed by a local authority/ new towns commission. The up was in a housing crisis, the development corporation had been set up …to build 2,000 houses for rent a year over the next decade. On my site, the first 514 dwellings. We were charged to handover 15 dwellings at 9 months from starting on site, then 15 every week until completed…. we were using modular plans and components to achieve the goal
(2) 1972 I was busy , my drawings had been passed, the local authority had given my parents plan permission, I had completed the construction drawings…I paused to stretch my back ,busy setting out the foundations with my father …(we was to build a new bungalow on his farm) looking at the flat fenland ,its horizon full of smoke…dad was burning off the surplus straw….mum came rushing over “ you’ve done it again Mack.. the police have been on the phone …you’ve set light to the telegraph poles” the situation has always>s remained with me…it made me think, why cannot we use straw bales?
(3) 1979 Youngest Clerk of Works employed by a UK regional health authority…overseeing construction of largest new teaching university hospital complex in Europe at Nottingham (QMC) I was in the Nottingham Library getting to research and getting construction books renewed…. when I came across a book on the shelf, it was by the great Professor Mr Magnus Pike. Some regarded him has a mad eccentric (mainly politicians) others like myself …. a pure genus…He predicted that in the future late 1980s/90s people would paying large amounts a year for electricity, heating, water…his answer was Autarky…. Start building wind generators, make and fit solar panels, reclaim roof water to reuse in the tap for washing, generating methane gas from one’s waste to make electricity for one’s home. The book I read started me on my dream (which lasted for over 28 years)
(4) 1994 Working on the largest printing press complex to be built in east Anglia. The merits /flexibility/saving on time by using the Unistrut Fixing Channel system to support newspaper dispatch equipment and the benefits and savings by using symphonic roof drainage systems
(5) 2004 At Kings Lynn District Hospital…. overseeing the new Intensive Care Unit…the benefit of using good fabricated steel in ceiling voids to support vital medical equipment on ceiling
(6) 2008 Overseeing the construction of 2 new hospitals for the mental handicap. Passive heated projects, solar and photovoltaic panels, reclaimed roof surface water
Ok, I>am rambling let’s look at the above points in video file2 Flexible Housing Central Module Design Principles and Er****on Sequence
Afterwards look at the 3rd /4th videos in the series, TELL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. You can see any of the video files on YouTube