‘Providing affordable housing to 70 pc population a challenge’
PTI | 04:01 PM,Jan 15,2012
Mumbai, Jan 15 (PTI) High-rise buildings increased FSI
will play a major role in solving the problem of affordable
housing, leading Indian architect Hafeez Contractor said.
“The challenge before the construction industry was to
provide affordable housing to 70 percent of the population of
the country who did not have their own housing. High-rise
buildings increased FSI will play a major role in solving the
problem and also preserve land for agriculture,” Contractor
said at the inauguration of the Constro 2012 in Pune.
The country’s biggest international exhibition on
construction machinery, materials, methods and projects -
Constro 2012 organised by Pune Construction Engineering
Research Foundation (PCERF).
The demands for space in the offices sector apart from
housing is also on the rise and new townships of the scale of
Chicago city will have to be built every year, Contractor said
in a statement here.
Affordable housing means that houses should be available
to people at the amount of their three years annual salary,
because today’s property rates are just going beyond common
man’s reach.
Contractor also praised the role of PCERF and the Constro
exhibition for promoting futuristic technologies and cost
effective construction solutions for the industry.
Naren Kothari, Chairman of Constro 2012, said that latest
technology of precast slabs and columns, door automation
-industrial and residential and green power technology are
some of the major highlights of the exhibition.
Apart from home grown construction technologies, we also
have technologies and products from China, Japan, Italy,
Germany, France Singapore which will be on display. PTI AP
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