San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 433
perties, have considerable effect onfuture home building and other construction, hav-ing been specified for the new office building ofthe East Bay Utilities District. It has three times the heat insulating value ofordinary concrete. This means if a house werebuilt with walls of Gravelite Concrete… … Gravelite Concrete is almost twice as elastic asordinary concrete. This property will tend toeliminate the cracking or unsightly appearanceordinarily occuring in large slabs and wall panels. Gravelite is manufactured from a mixture ofhard shale and soft clay which is mined from anopen quarry face…
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