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9Oo/o of All Houses to Be lPrefob'?

Lumber's share of the housing market could be vastly increased if lumber manufacturers catered more to housing as a major end-product consumer of lumber, P.S. Knox, president of the Prefabricated Home Manufacturers' Institute, told directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at their 1955 annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Knox said lumber's greatest single weakness in competition with other materials is its "unswerving allegiance to the old American lumberyard standards, with their multiplicity of sizes, lengths, grades and species." The housing leader noted that while a movement to simplify and standardize dimensions has been under way for years, it has "gone entirely too slow." He said that lumber manufacturers and house builders ought to "get together more often" in an effort to eliminate waste and cut overhead costs.

"In our prefab operations we limit the number of basic designs that we produce, and reduce the variety and sizes of materials used in producing these models, so that we can simplify our procurement and inventory problems," Knox said. He noted that prefabbers have "long since fou.nd out that all wall studs don't have to be 2x4-16's.

"We could really put you fellows back into the pre-cut dimension business and find good ways together to use up advantageously your culls and shorts," Knox told the lumbermen.

He said that prefab housing already has become an important consumer of lumber products since this type of construction accounted for nearly l0/o of all housing starts this year. Knox predicted that in the next 15 or N years fully 90o/s of. all the houses built will be prefabricated.

Because of a big increase in the total number of prefab houses built in 1955, plus the fact that the average size of each house is larger, the prefab industry last year would almost double its 1954 consumption of lumber and wood products, Knox estimated. He said 1954 consumption included more than 40O million board feet of lumber, over 250 million feet of plywood, more than 78 million board feet of flooring, 847,ffiO doors, and over 52 million feet of wood trim. said that only 29 months were required "from concept to commerciality."

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The speaker also paid tribute to long-range progress made by the lumber industry in the last 15 years. He asserted: "Lumber is coming to be considered more of a crop than a national resource like coal to be consumed and forgotten. This means higher costs today but lower costs tomorrow. This is a fair and equitable bargain with your customersthe American public. American industry has made a similar bargain with its customers. It has increased the price of its products and withheld immediate profits from its stockholders when necessary in order to support an aggressive technical program."

A highlight of the meeting, attended by more than 150 leading lumber and wood products manufacturers, was the (Continued on Page 52)

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New Timber Design for Commerciol ond Form Stru&ures

Washington, D.C.-A new integral wood frame, combining roof and wall sections, for economical construction of small commercial and industrial type buildings, has been designed by Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The design is available as a guide for planners of garages, warehouses, farm utility buildings, and similar structures that require maximum post-free work area and high ceiling clearance.

The new "arch frame" typical design provides clear spans of. Z0 to 30 feet, with stud wall heights ranging from approximately 8 to 10 feet. With wall and roof sections

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combined, the frames can be tilted up into position quickly for fast erection and early closing in of the building.

The combination roof .and wall frame is designed for a roof load of 30 pounds per square foot, and a wind load of 20 pounds per square foot, based on the use of TECO wedge-fit timber connectors in assembling the frames, which are then spaced two feet on center, and anchored with Trip-L-Grip framing anchors.

The use of standard Z-inch lumber in 4-,6-,8.; or 1O-inch widths, depending upon the length of span, provides another economy factor in addition to the speed of fabrication, assembly, and erection. The amount of lumber required for each fiame ranges from 67 board feet, for the N-foot span, to Il7 feet for the 30-foot span.

L. A. Resltors in NAREB Posts

Several Los Angeles realtors were elected to offices in the National Association of Real Estate Boards at the recent NAREB convention in New York City. Fred W. Marlow, president of the Los Angeles Realty Board, was elected to the NAREB board of directors, along with Albert Dippell and James M. Udall of L. A. Other Californians elected to the board wcre Carl W. Newport, Sherman Oaks; C. J. Duncan, Oakland; John Cotton, San Diego; Reg F. Dupuy, Long Beach; Frank Farish, Woodland; Willard L. Johnson, San Francisco; Wynne A. Savage, San Bernardino, and Elmer F. Karpe, Bakersfield.