Affordable Housing and Ways to Achieve Lower Cost and Less Period of Time

Abstract

A housing problem of the problems facing the countries, especially the developing countries. It is essential to provide housing units at the level commensurate with the rapid population growth. Many countries have applied structural policies to confront this problem by relying on the available material and human resources to provide as many housing units to occupy by those who do not have good housing for shelter.This research targeted the field of affordable housing units in general and the impact of use Structural innovative system in particular, and the impact of the implementation of the new system on the cost and Duration of time needed to accomplish. In order to reach the aim of the research was take advantage of previous research and studies in the field of implementation of housing units by insulated concrete forms technique shorten to (ICF) technique and adopt this technique for the implementation of residential complexes.The research reached to propose a new technique for the construction of housing units by the construction of a typical residential house at the headquarters of the General Authority for Housing using the proposed technique. An economic comparison was conducted between the proposed system for construction and traditional commonly used building systems of massive wall system and frame wall system. It has been found that the proposed system is better than commonly used alternatives to an economic life of 33 years,