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Plastic Pipes Conference Association # 1974 Southampton
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In the early ‘1950s, The Shell International Petroleum Company decided to centralise their activities in a new Headquarters Building Complex known as “The Shell Centre”.
This complex was built in London, on-the Old Festival of Britain Site at Waterloo, overlooking the River Thames, and consisted of a twenty six storey tower block and three ten storey blocks (upstream building), tinked to two ten storey blocks (downstream building), and all was linked to an underground tiered system,
The function of the Centre was to locate over 5,000 staff and provide ultra modern facilities (known today as Environmental Care) with emphasis on: Modern.and Efficient Working Conditions Relaxation and Recreational Facilities First Class Catering Facilities Efficient.and Speedy Communications Reduced Travelling Inconvenience The Planners and Designers brief was to provide all of these plus other requirements in a complex to be of the highest modern standard incorporating such facilities and refinements that it would compare favourably with installations twenty years later.
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Plastics pipes have been used for a variety of applications since the mid-1950s, but they have not been considered very seriously by the Gas Industry until fairly recently. Until 1965, the majority of fuel gas in the UK was 'towns gas' with a high content of liquid aromatic hydrocarbons. This 'wet' gas attacked pipes...
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