Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

acash

Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements and Housing
ACASH

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Document TypeGeneral
Publish Date11/03/2017
AuthorVPS Nihar Nanyam
Published ByELSEVIER
Edited ByTabassum Rahmani
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Evaluating offsite technologies for affordable housing

The shortage of the housing in India and the Government has outlined a vision of  housing to all till 2022 .It has now been formalized Perdhan Mantri Awas Yojanas. This scheme is launched with an aim to provide housing for all the citizens under economically weaker section  and low-income group  categories. According to this scheme construction of 18.78 million houses across the country within next seven years planned. They decided to use the offsite technology  in the housing sector would achieve this grand vision of India. The Offsite technologies obviously  superior to the traditional approach have to be mainstreamed in the industry to construct such large volume of housing stock.

Several differences between offsite commitment and delivery owing to lack of sufficient infrastructure is highlighted by a researcher in the context of Australian housing. Firms such as prefab AUS, Australian research training for prefabricated housing are bridging the gap. Australia has an adoption percentage of 3% in prefab housing when compared to Japan which has 13% adoption of modular offsite construction. In addition to Australia, UK has incorporated offsite methods into their Vision 2020 plan for construction sector. When it comes to construction industry at European Union, a research project is formulated to improve the uptake of offsite practices. European Union is always ahead in terms of adopting offsite production in construction sector and as a step towards training, Virtual Reality environment has been researched to resolve all the problems associated with offsite construction training to job workers.

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