Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Document Type General
Publish Date 17/05/2017
Author Virendra Kumar Paul and Varun Seth
Published By Journal of Construction in Developing Countries
Edited By Tabassum Rahmani
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Benchmarking and objective selection of technologies for housing in India

The technology  as a key solution for the challenges of sustainability and quality in housing and  benchmarking as a tool for selection of appropriate technologies. Suitability of technologies for housing has been discovered as functional needs, sustainability needs, and performance standards. The more important is  selection of appropriate technologies, particularly in case of mass housing.

The objective framework has been developed by identification of needs of large scale projects, assessment of current issues and their shortcomings and development of objective parameters and Quality Function Deployment  has been used as tool for benchmarking. If technologies are promoted by Government of India for “Housing for All” Mission has been taken up for development of the framework and benchmarking. According to  National Housing Bank of India, in year 2013 estimated housing shortage in urban India was at about  18.78 million units in 2012 and  the growth of  urban population was from 340 million in 2008 to 590 million by 2030, and KPMG India says that  nearly 110 million new houses will be needed by 2022. The housing sector faces challenges like demand and supply, land availability and shortage, financial and operational constraints.

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