%0 Book Section %B Model houses constructed in the international exhibition on low-cost housing %D 1954 %T 44.—Asbestos Cement Company, Ltd. %K Asbestos Cement Company, Ltd. %K Low-Income Housing %K Model House %X

A special feature of this house, erected by Asbestos Cement Company Limited, is a cuved double roof. Asbestos Cement sheet, which is so curved, eliminates all timber work in the roof. Asbestos is a good building material and in this house its insulation properties have been improved by having two sheets with a layer of air in between.

%B Model houses constructed in the international exhibition on low-cost housing %I Manager of Publications - Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply %C New Delhi, India %P 92-93 %G eng