Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

acash

Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements and Housing
ACASH

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Document TypeGeneral
Publish Date15/10/2015
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Published ByJournal Of Information, Knowledge and Research in Civil Engineering
Edited BySuneela Farooqi
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India: Design and Development of Light Weight Clay Wall for Low Cost Housing Project

The Centre government of India will soon roll out the ‘Sardar Patel Urban Housing Mission ‘or ‘Urban sanitation’, which will ensure 30 million houses by 2022.On the steps being initiated to replace slums with low-cost houses. A wall is a structure that defines an area, carries a load, or provides shelter or security. There are many kinds of walls such as defensive walls in fortification, walls of buildings which are a fundamental part of the superstructure or which separate the spaces in buildings sections sometimes for the purpose of fire safety, walls which hold back earth called retaining walls, offer protection from oceans such as a seawall or river as a levee. Permanent, solid fences are walls, and border barriers between countries are sometimes walls. Building wall’s purposes are to support roofs, floors, and ceilings, enclose a space as part of the building envelope, along with a roof to give buildings form, and to provide shelter and security. Different types of wall masonry are used in Conventional Time Concrete wall masonry, Stonewall masonry, Stonewall masonry, Glass Wall masonry.

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