ABSTRACT
The government increasingly regulated and standardised building elements throughout the country and through all sectors in an attempt to speed up and reduce the cost of construction. In 1947, the Danish Building Research Institute had been set up to help the drive towards efficiency. The trade unions, which had invested in the national building agency in the war, now were instrumental in forming a national building supply body to provide building materials and equipment to the co-operative and non-profit builders. About 90 per cent of all post-war housing production was industrialised and, as systems developed, the time to build a housing unit dropped to two months. One outcome was that virtually the entire post-war social housing stock was industrially built, about 80 per cent in medium-rise flats. Another outcome was the sophisticated standards of equipment and communal facilities. A third was the visible quality of social housing dwellings.
