In studying low-cost housing projects, the reduction of cost for analysis and design is important. The structural model testing and the newly developed materials that may be applicable to low-cost housing projects are summarized and briefly discussed. For further information, the readers are encouraged to inspect the original papers.

One may note that the applications of these newly developed materials such as fiber reinforced concrete and small-scale structural plastic model testing techniques would not only reduce the cost of the project but also provide architectural flexibility to design thin plate or shell structures for low-cost housing.