Low Cost Housing

Housing in Developing Countries – Areas of Concern

  • Severe shortage of houses in developing countries specially for poor people.

  • Severe problem of management of agro industrial waste in developing countries.
  • Mounting pressure on non renewable energy resources.
  • Non-availability of energy efficient technologies for converting agro industrial waste and renewable local resources into alternative materials.
  • Expensive & scarce building materials and components.

Housing in Developing Countries – Issues & Opportunities

  • Need for energy efficiency and environmental protection in manufacturing technologies.
  • Need to develop cost effective construction technologies to mitigate the effects of natural hazards.
  • Need to create employment and skill improvement opportunities leading to poverty alleviation.
  • Need to substitute expensive & scarce building materials and components by low cost locally available materials to suit local design typologies.

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