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Home Builders Hold Gost-lowering Srudy Conference in Woshington

Updating regulations on home building, thereby permitting more widespread use of the vast store of current technical construction knowledge developed in the past 10 years, could result in savings of millions of dollars in the building of modest-size homes, according to home builders who recently concluded a two-day cost-lorvering conference at the National Housing Center, Washington, D. C.

Sixty leading home builders, architects, engineers, and prefabricated home manufacturers attended the conference, which was sponsored by the National Housing Center and held under the direction of the National Association of Home Builders' Research Institute.

"A number of cost-savings techniques, some which can save up to $200 per house, were disclosed at this meeting," stated Alan Brockbapk, Salt Lake City builder and general chairman of the meeting. "However, unless they are accepted and used by such agencies as the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and local cod.: and regulations authorities, these techniques and others rvill not be available to help effect economies for the home buyer."

Brockbank pointed out that some of the techniques discussed at the cost-savings conference, which attempted to show where construction costs in the 100O-1100 square foot home could be cut, might not appear to achieve great savings individually, but that added together they could represent substantial construction savings without sacrificing quality.

The builders listed the following techniques they have employed to reduce building costs:

1. A new techniclue rvhereby the foundation wall, instead of being buried deep in the ground, rests just below the surface of the ground. Indiana builders who have applied this method in thousands of homes during the past few years estimate that it can effect savings of as much as $125 per house.

2. Pouring basement floors and footings together in advance of pouring foundation r,valls. The builders agreed that a change to this system from the traditional threestage method of building the basement floors, walls, and foundations in separate steps would constitute important savings. One builder reported that, by using this technique

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"At Bob Sullivan's lumberyard in San Diego the other morning, the seal was broken on a freight-car door and workmen prepared to unload a car of walnut lutnber," reported Neil Morgan in his "Crosstown" column in The San Diego Evening Tribune. "Back slid the cloor, and what was inside ? Four shiny new automobiles I The walnut lumber was on Southern Pacific Car 76000, and the car in Sullivan's yard was New York Central Car 76000. Sullivan arranged a swap with a Pasa<lena car dealer, who had his walnut. There was no great haggling; retail price of a carload of walnut is $15,000," the column item concluded.

in a 2,000-home project,'he was able to save $100 per house.

3. Greater use of large components, such as roof trusses and tilt-up rvalls instead of conventional piece-by-piece work. These methods will eventually help reduce building costs substantially, but, since their application is still relatively new, the full extent of their potential savings is not yet known.

4. Adoptiorl locally of provisions of the American Standard for Plumbing (A40.S) as a basic guide. The builders also felt that if prefabrication in the plumbing field could be accomplished further'savings would result.

5. Reduction of residential street widths. On a 60-{oot lot this rvould save $15-$24 per foot for each foot narror'ved in the street. Builders pointed out that this is also :r safety measure, since it reduces and slows traffic.

Other cost savings discussed were the possible use of asphalt curbs in residential streets and the application of new labor-saving devices in painting.

"The techniques discussed at this meeting har-e all been tested and used successfully in thousands of homes by experienced builders," declared Andrew Place, a builder of South Bend, Indiana, who served.as technical chairman of the conference. "This points up the need for federal and local regulatory groups in the home-building field to work even harder to keep current in the complicated and fastmoving developments in new knowledge, techniques, and materials in residential construction."

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