Thursday, July 31, 2008
By our correspondent

KARACHI: Pakistan can easily overcome the worsening problem of housing by using the latest Korean technology and can build over 10,000 houses in a period of 3 to 4 months, said Choe Su Il, Korean Consul General in Pakistan.

He was talking in a meeting with the chairman of housing committee of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Munir Sultan the other day.

He added that the latest Korean technology is very advanced, and in construction, Korea can help Pakistan over come its rising housing demand. Munir Sultan said that modern Korean construction technology would be helpful in providing 10,000 low cost houses in just three months. It is fast becoming difficult for the government of Pakistan to provide shelter to the poor or lower income groups of the country.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=127189

Great News.

Any Ideas what would these house be like?
how many Bedroom? Is it of Plastic or Wood or what ?

Good news.

Identical to the US model, dry-wall, wood, plaster-of-paris, and plastic.
Should be 2 models at-least, 2 and 3 bedrooms with 1 or 2 common bathrooms.

Have any of you seen "Projects" model in NA?

There is a thing called canvas concrete.It is pretty cool.

Concrete can't be low cost Ali, cement is not exactly something cheap or fast either.
They are talking about pre-fabricated houses, putting together a jigsaw puzzle at the site.

Either way, they are better than shanty houses which are made out of cardboard.

Why can we not produce low cost houses locally? We can import expertise and materials from S.Korea, and still consider the end product low cost, why can we not just get the material from China and the expertise locally and make them even more losw cost?

Also I wonder what a low cost house is? Bricks? Cement/steel? Wood? Plastic terapins?

All of these combined: styro-foam, Dry-wall, wood, plaster-of-paris, and plastic (& glass for the windows ofcourse).
They are pre-fabricated in a factory, and moved on large semi trucks onto the location.
Another types are the trailer homes (low cost right).

This industry needs experienced and skilled workers, which doesn't exist in Pakistan today.
Seasoning & Waterproofing wood in large scale is not possible either (Pakistan).

Try googling Pre-fab houses, you'll get a lot of examples.
Sample:
material http://www.jothouse.com goto Details, Specs, building shell.
Type/Model http://www.jothouse.com/#model01
Assembling on Site http://www.jothouse.com/#process01b