TITLE:
Prospects of Low Cost Housing in India
AUTHORS:
Swaptik Chowdhury, Sangeeta Roy
KEYWORDS:
Low-Cost Housing; Building Materials; Sustainability
JOURNAL NAME:
Geomaterials,
Vol.3 No.2,
April
30,
2013
ABSTRACT:
The paper presents work on low-cost and sustainable alternative
building materials having advantages on areas such as India where
concrete or steel housing is expensive. The project addresses the
challenges and stereotypes of using these materials as a structural component
for low-cost housing and their same capacity for adaptation to the broad
spectrum of factors—physical, ecological, social, economic and
technical—through different products developed which can dictate
the production of the construction environment.