BUILDING RESEARCH IN GREAT BRITAIN*

Abstract

SO much is being said nowadays about the need for additional research in connexion with the housing programme that there is a tendency to forget what has already been done in Great Britain. In fact, during the period between the two world wars, the foundations of a real science of building were solidly laid. This work has been centralized in the Building Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, though sister establishments, notably the Forest Products Research Laboratory, the Fuel Research Station and the National Physical Laboratory have also made their contribution.