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    :: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 ::

    Shaping tomorrow’s building blocks By George Couch, WNR
    New wood products and processes for home building are always under construction at the Forest Products Laboratory.

    The first all-wood prefabricated house was built using plywood panels at FPL in 1935; two more demonstration houses were erected in 1937. The designs helped provide low-cost housing during the depression. FPL’s “Techniques of House Nailing” instructed apprentice carpenters and homeowners who bought more than 100,000 copies from 1947-57.
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