Abstract
Since the cost of buildings for livestock housed intensively depends mainly on the cost of the materials used in their construction and of the labour required on site, ways of reducing these were investigated. Designs for stressed skin load-bearing panels, with oil-tempered hardboard cladding and the minimum of framing, were developed and tested, together with techniques for assembling them into a frameless structure. Adequate foundations, based on treated timber stub piles, were developed for light timber buildings. An experimental building, substantially cheaper than equivalent commercial designs, was built and after 8 years of use showed that hardboard, even with surface treatment, was not a suitable cladding material for farm buildings in Britain; but that the design, with a suitable roof covering, was worthy of further study.
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