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Residential surveys of interwar semi‐detached properties

Malcolm FRICS Hollis BSc , AIAS ASVA , ACIArb (Malcolm Hollis read Architecture, Economic History and Archaeology at University College, Cardiff, and Building Sciences at Manchester University. He started work in an architect's office in Liverpool before moving to London in 1967, where he became a partner in Best Gapp and Partners in 1970. In 1970 he set up his own practice in London, specialising in diagnosing failures and faults in buildings and in the project management of building work. In 1980 he merged his firm with Baxter Payne and Lepper, and is now a partner of the firm.)

Structural Survey

ISSN: 0263-080X

Article publication date: 1 January 1983

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Abstract

Between the first and second world wars there was an expansion of building within Britain, which is personified by the British suburban ‘semi’. With only minor variations in their external appearance they utilised the same internal layout and were the housing equivalent of the model T Ford.

Citation

Hollis BSc, M.F., ASVA, A. and ACIArb (1983), "Residential surveys of interwar semi‐detached properties", Structural Survey, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006150

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