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Bernard Lefebvre
Joined: 02 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:18 am Post subject: Low cost housing |
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Low cost housing or affordable housing represent major and urgent problem in most developing countries of the world. The only alternative poor families have is to live in slums that are developing at a much higher rate than local government housing programs can address the demand for housing. Low cost housing is a very large market that is just starting to be looked at globally.
At Habitech we have been promoting the establishment of small and medium scale production facilities to organizations, community groups and the private sector involved in the delivery of affordable housing or social infrastructure buildings such as schools, health clinics and district hospitals.
The typical production facilities are based on a business model to create employment and generate income for local population. These facilities are capable of fabricating all of the necessary building materials and can deliver from a house a week to a house a day using only locally available raw materials and labour. These facilities can also serve as incubators for the promotion of micro-enterprises. Local entrepreneurs can be trained at these facilities and become satellite building material micro-producers and building contractors.
The production process is labour intensive (providing direct employment for 15 to 30 local workers), use clean energy and does not contribute to green house effects. The rapid depletion of forest reserves, with consequent aggravation to the environment, makes imperative the use of alternative materials to replace the use of timber in construction in many developing countries. The building system also eliminates the use of wood in the construction process limiting its use to doors and window only.
Houses built this way undercut traditional and conventional construction system by as much as 30-50%. Under self-help and mutual aid techniques it is possible to built solid and durable two storey houses for less than $30 US per square meter. The average cost per square meter of low-cost affordable houses in most projects where we have been involved is below $100. US per square meter.
Low cost housing projects can be successful if they are rooted in the community, present innovative solutions to real problems, enable others to imitate it and build partnerships between the private and public sector. But mostly they need to address livelihood by making it possible for local people to earn a living and generate income from these projects.
Examples can be seen at:
http://www.habitech-international.com |
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nipesh
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
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Location: India
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Here in India we have architect Lawry Baker working for poors to have low cost buildings........he has most of his work at Trivandrum.
His work is really worth consideration.
If you can have him then lowcost bldgs can be built to set up the poors in India too.
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sathyan
Joined: 29 Jul 2004
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Location: NIT calicut
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| here in kerala there is many firms doing lowcost housing one of the important of that type is making house using mud it reduces the cost of houses to about 50% |
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HSN_FATHY
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sudhadhar
Joined: 26 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="HSN_FATHY"]Does Lawry Baker and other firms in kerala have english web site??
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Site about Hassan Fathy
http://www.hassanfathy.50megs.com/
Group page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arc4poor
Group email : arc4poor@yahoogroups.com[/quote
Dear Sir,
We, M/s Indu Projects Ltd., are the fastest growing Construction / Infrastructure firm in India, diversifying into many related fields. A peep at our website www.induprojects.com and www.indufortunefields.com can tell you more about us. We are in the INR 500 cr. Turnover bracket and aiming to 1000 this year.
We are presently in the arenas of Core Infra, Urban Infra, Railways, water Treatment, Realty etc., and are spreading our wings in the Low Cost Housing aspects too.
We are on the verge of netting a huge order for such low cost housing at one metro city in India. We are eager to tie up with some technology provider for the same. In this respect, we are writing to you. Please let us have your earnest response at an early date. The project will be demanding to build 50000 houses @ 10000 an year.
The Low cost houses are expected to be
Disaster proof
Energy efficient
Attractive
Highly strong
Uses widely available materials
Uses least expensive materials
Involves unskilled people for making
Please let us have your feedback regarding your interest to be associated with us along with your credentials in this field.
Sridharan
Special Projects Division,
Indu Projects Ltd.,
1009, Phase XIII
KPHB Colony,
Kukatpally,
Hyderabad 500072
India
040-23780000
09346742769 |
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usarender
millennium club
Joined: 01 May 2004
Posts: 1258
Location: San Diego, Ca
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: Mr. Sridharan, your site is not working |
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Sridharan,
Your link is no longer available.
Can you site and samples of your company system be seen elsewhere, or do you have an alternate site ?
Mr. Nelson
Architect, Designer, Inventor, Scientist, Artist.
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