Harbin possesses the largest housing stocks of Heilongjiang province, which provides accommodation for 3.3 million people, of which public housing is for about 210 thousand people. To meet the growing need for public housing, the government has committed to produce 73,650 public flat units in the next three year as its long-term housing policy. To meet this production target, the government off...

Hong Kong possesses one of the world’s largest public housing stocks which provide accommodation for 3.1 million people. To meet the growing need for public housing, the government has committed to produce 50,000 public flat units (plus 35,000 units from private developers) a year as its long term housing policy. To meet this production target, contractors are facing with the challenge to furth...

Prefabrication could provide various benefits for housing production, including lower the cost, improve the management efficiency and quality, ensure the safety, and realize sustainability. However, to fully acquire these benefits in real world construction process, challenges still exist on real-time tracing and tracking of the prefabrication components, and getting real-time interactions amon...

Bricks In Predicting its Acceptability for Housing in Lagos State, Nigeria Author(s): Oluwole Alagbe, Bukola Adewale and Taiye Alagbe Outlet: Proceedings of the CIB W107 2014 International Conference, Lagos, Nigeria, 716-723 Date: 28th-30th January, 2014 Abstract: Compressed Stabilized Laterite Bricks (CSLBs) has been canvassed as a viable alternative to sandcrete blocks due to its affordabilit...

A system that guides the physical production of building construction with one digital fabrication device is presented. It is a rule based system for wood frame construction that generates construction information for the production of design artifacts; as design models or full scale buildings. The goal of the research was preparation for an automated system that supports generative design prod...

Traditional houses (Figure 1) in Southeast Asia are typically constructed using prefabricated of ready-made housing components. This construction technique is feasible due mainly to the geography and climate of the region, namely proximity to the sea and high annual rainfall, and has been passed down through generations by the local people. However, a shift of socio-economic pattern from tradit...

Policy makers agree that vacant houses are undesirable. Moreover the existence of empty houses is used as an argument for allocating less land for new construction. So higher vacancy rates tend to trigger tighter restrictions on the supply of land. Such tighter restrictions lead to higher prices and, because of the incentives this creates for occupying housing, to lower housing vacancies (‘oppo...

extended abstract 1. introduction type and form of the location that humans choose for settlement have changed throughout the history. these developments have taken place for the welfare of human beings. the existence of low income people and their needs for housing in many cities has caused the the formation of settlements that are of lowest quality in third world countries. social housing (me...