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http://www.dailynews.lk/Special programme to achieve target of 700,000 houses for next 10 years
COLOMBO: "Based on the Central Bank report of 2005, the Ministry of Housing and Construction has worked out that the housing target for the next 10 years should be about 700,000 houses. This is a sizeable amount and could not be fulfilled with traditional construction methods.
Advanced Technology suitable for speedy cost effective construction have to be used to achieve this target. Fast track construction methods have to be introduced to reduce the cost by way of limiting the labour component, overheads and wastage," said Minister of Housing and Construction Ferial Ashraff at the inauguration of the seminar on "Cost Effective Housing" organised by the Institute for Construction, Training and Development (ICTAD) at the 'Sausiripaya' Auditorium recently.
Minister Ashraff further said that the basic cost of a typical house has gone up from Rs. 800 per sq. foot in year 2000 to Rs. 1600 per sq. foot in year 2006.
At this rate, constructing of houses using traditional methods is going beyond the reach of an average person. Even the Government finds it difficult to finance housing projects now.
"One of the reasons for this crisis I understand is the use of materials like, cement, sand, bricks, etc. extensively. The price of cement is Rs. 625 per bag and it makes up nearly 10% of the construction cost. Sand has become scarce in this country due to environmental considerations and over exploitation. Steel prices in the world market have gone up drastically making multi storied housing construction expensive and unaffordable," she said.
The labour component is very high in traditional construction. The shortage of skilled labour and the resulting high wages is aggravating the situation. Thus the shortage of materials and skilled labour have contributed to this very high cost.
"We in the Ministry through the Centre for Housing Planning and Building (CHPB) are also working on a very low cost housing technology using the slip form method.
We have used this technology in one of the National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) schemes in Monaragala which was very successful. This technology uses minimum amount of cement with soil.
The labour component is also very negligible and the house owner with his family members themselves could be involved in the construction. However, this technology needs further development and could be used to put up houses for the poorest of poor," Minister Ashraff said.
She queried as to why even though the cost effective housing methods have been successful in neighbouring countries during the last 15-20 years, in Sri Lanka it is yet to be popular and acceptable to the people?.
"I leave it to you to discuss this aspect during the Technical session and come up with suggestions to make the cost effective housing method popular and acceptable in this country." "The general public have to be educated to realise that through these methodologies, it is possible to construct safe and comfortable houses at an affordable cost".
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